Thinking about starting a family soon?
In America, that means you need to be thinking about your employer’s parental leave policies. Unless you’re lucky enough to be sitting on a tall stack of cash, these policies will affect every part of the family-planning process, from whether you’re given adequate paid time off to physically recover from birthing a child to whether you’re even allowed to take any time off at all.
The good news is that in recent years, there’s been a very slight bump in the percentage of employers that offer these benefits, and a somewhat notable bump in
