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Reflecting on These Early Days
In an October 2021 letter to then-Home Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer explaining her help for obligatory paid parental depart within the U.S., Meghan wrote of being “overjoyed” however “overwhelmed” when her daughter was born when the pandemic was nonetheless stopping enterprise as common in hospitals, colleges, and many others.
“Like fewer mother and father, we weren’t confronted with the cruel actuality of both spending these first few vital months with our child or going again to work,” she wrote. “We knew we might take her dwelling, and in that important (and sacred) stage, commit any and the whole lot to our children and to our household. We knew that by doing so we would not should make unattainable decisions about childcare, work, and medical care that so many should make each single day.”
Meghan continued, “No household ought to be confronted with these choices. No household ought to have to decide on between incomes a residing and having the liberty to handle their youngster (or a cherished one, or themselves, as we might see with a complete paid depart plan).”