M: Maternity & Paternity Leave

More Men Taking Care of Elderly Parents

Elisa Batista — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:04:14 -0500

In case you missed it, the New York Times ran a feature about men who care for their elderly parents. Nearly 40 percent of men are their family's primary care provider up from 19 percent in 1996, according to the Alzheimer's Association.

Excuse Me, Senator McCain -- What I Want for my Daughter Isn't About Being Liberal or Conservative

PunditMom — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:25:54 -0400

As the mother of a daughter, there are things I want for my eight-year-old especially when she becomes a woman -- things that I was lucky to have, but that generations before me didn't. Interestingly, John McCain, as the father of daughters, doesn't seem to want those same things.

Bush Says New Moms and Their Babies Cost Too Much

PunditMom — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:42:04 -0400

When it was time to travel to China to bring home our little PunditBaby, I was working at a large government agency in a pretty senior position.

One Step Toward Paid Leave for All

Rachna Choudhry — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:37:58 -0400

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives got us one step closer to paid family leave for every working family in the country.

Paid family leave victory in New Jersey!

Mojo Mom -- Amy Tiemann — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:55:47 -0400

Great news this week -- thanks to your hard work, New Jersey is poised to become the third state in the nation with paid family leave. The NJ State Senate passed the bill 21-15 after receiving over 63,000 (yes that's 63 THOUSAND) letters as part of a major MomsRising campaign. That's what I call "naptime activism" in action!

Learn more about the campaign behind this success story here on MomsRising.org, and I also wrote about it on my Mojo Mom blog

New Jersey: Major Progress toward Paid Family Leave

Katie Bethell — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:53:23 -0400

In New Jersey, a broad coalition of organizations including MomsRising is in the final stages of passing Family Leave Insurance. This is terrific news that has important national implications.

Presidential Candidates: Moms and Newborns Need Paid Family Leave!

Nanette Fondas — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:58:20 -0400

On International Women's Day Saturday, I started thinking about moms around the world and then moms in our own United States of America. As the mother of four children, I've spent a lot of time over the years breastfeeding babies, and so I wondered: Why do moms in the U.S. still lack a guarantee of some paid maternity leave so they have time to bond with their bundles-of-joy?

Are Moms Really Ready For Change?

Dana Glazer — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:58:35 -0500

A few days back I was talking with a working mom who is newly pregnant. She's someone I really like and respect. Anyway, I asked her what she intended to do regarding maternity leave and she told me she expected that she would take a few weeks off from work.

What Every New Parent Needs To Know About Family Leave

Elisa Batista — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:10:59 -0500

Cookie magazine laid out all the federal and state protections for parents who must take leave for a new baby. Admittedly, it isn’t much, but it is something every new parent should know:

"Family and Medical Leave Act

One Mom Rising

yvonnemonique — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:27:09 -0500

In case you are new to my blog, which will regularly appear on this MomsRising homepage (so check back in often!), my husband and I are wearing the MomsRising.org t-shirts everyday until Paid Family Leave is passed in Washington State. My hope is that it will raise awareness for MomsRising.org and garner support for the passage of Paid Family Leave in Washington. Now let me take a moment to properly introduce myself and illuminate why I am taking on working for Change here at home: I am now an activist. It's not how I'd have classified myself a month ago, but my recent pledge to consider democracy as an action, as opposed to a concept, has me viewing myself differently. I am thirty-three years old. I was raised in poverty by a mother who fled an abusive husband and turned to the state for help after her self-esteem and self worth were beaten out of her and her five children. I say poverty and I wonder if you, the reader, know what I mean. It is a widely used word, and brings to mind many pictures, I want you to see mine. Poverty was living in a school bus that was converted to be our home...