Again, you’re preaching to the choir. Universal Healthcare and one year paid family leave for everyone should be standard. But this is the reality we live in. I am a mom of four kids myself and have faced huge income disparities, harassment, and pregnancy discrimination myself. It’s all well and good to be a couch potato advocate on reddit, but we have been fighting for equal treatment for women and families for decades with very minimal results. This woman is in the real work and needs a real solution. She needs to work with the tools she has available.

Yes, I consider it abusing the system if women take paid maternity leave with no intention of returning to work. Clearly I am right....companies have learned from that and changed their policies. Now women like the OP on LA are suffering from those actions.

If you think it should be mandatory that a company give paid maternity leave, vote for every elected official you can, call their offices and write letters. I bet you don’t even know who your US senator and US Congressman even is. And I’d bet my car that you don’t know who your state representatives are. Get the hell off reddit go do something real and don’t yell at me. I live in the real world and deal with this crap every day. Wishing for paid maternity leave is a pipe dream and doesn’t help a pregnant woman who is due in 3 months.