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The US has no mandated maternity leave pay.
Americans live in the only developed nation that offers no federally mandated maternity leave, not to mention sick days or vacation.
In countries such as the Scandinavian nations, official support starts at birth, with mandated maternity leave that protects the woman's job while she stays home from work for the first few weeks, months, or even years of her baby's life.
She expressed opposition to federally mandated maternity leave.
Pregnant women face numerous challenges at work -- discrimination in hiring and the absence of federally mandated maternity leave, to name two.
Government mandated maternity leave is granted for a maximum of 10 weeks, with at least two weeks having to be taken before the expected date of delivery [ 42].
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The Affordable Care Act mandates maternity coverage because, in the old days, insurance frequently didn't offer it ― or did so only if beneficiaries were willing to pay a hefty surcharge.
The real tragedy is women who go back to work a few weeks after birth because of the lack of U.S. federal laws mandating maternity leave and subsequent financial needs with less than ideal childcare arrangements.
She laments the fact that the United States is one of the few countries in the world that doesn't mandate maternity leave for women, and mentions the "lack of safe, affordable high-quality childcare".
Other than the United States, the only nation we know of that doesn't have mandated paid maternity leave... is Papua New Guinea.
It is one of only four countries in the world to have no mandated paid maternity leave (the others are Liberia, Papua New Guinea and Swaziland).
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