{"id":65511,"date":"2024-09-14T14:17:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=65511"},"modified":"2024-09-14T14:17:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T14:17:50","slug":"parental-leave-isnt-a-holiday-or-a-year-off-so-dont-pit-parents-against-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/14\/parental-leave-isnt-a-holiday-or-a-year-off-so-dont-pit-parents-against-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental leave isn\u2019t a holiday or a \u2018year off\u2019 \u2013 so don\u2019t pit parents against workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60257\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/New-born-baby-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/New-born-baby-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/New-born-baby-360x218.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/New-born-baby.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">M<\/span>aternity leave is not a holiday. It is not a break, a sabbatical, a retreat, a period of respite. It is not \u201cchecking out\u201d, time off, a gap year, a lull, a hiatus, or a breather. It is not \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/uk\/life-and-culture\/a60715854\/non-maternity-year-childfree\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">a stop-off<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/lifestylegeneral\/parental-leave-isn-t-a-holiday-or-a-year-off-so-don-t-pit-parents-against-workers\/ar-AA1qyGN9?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=26752e5ced904774af1c28bf23300a4e&amp;ei=131\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Maternity leave is not a holiday. It is not a break, a sabbatical, a retreat, a period of respite. It is not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/new-mother.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65513,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65511\/revisions\/65513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}