"When the press accuses a new father of being "MIA" for going on parental leave to bond with a child

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The article goes on to say he now has been appearing on TV shows......











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When the press accuses a new father of being “MIA” for going on parental leave to bond with a child, it sends exactly the wrong message to working families.

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Can Pete Buttigieg have it all?

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2021/10/14/can-pete-buttigieg-have-it-all-494710?cid=hptb_primary_0



By ALEX THOMPSON and TINA SFONDELES

10/14/2021 03:31 PM EDT



PETE BUTTIGIEG has been MIA.

While U.S. ports faced anchor-to-anchor traffic and Congress nearly melted down over the president’s infrastructure bill in recent weeks, the usually omnipresent Transportation secretary was lying low.

One of the White House’s go-to communicators didn’t appear on TV. He was absent on Capitol Hill during the negotiations over the bill he had been previously helping sell to different members of Congress. Conservative critics tried (unsuccessfully) to get #WheresPete to trend and Fox News ran a story on October 4 with the headline: “Buttigieg quiet on growing port congestion as shipping concerns build ahead of holidays.”

They didn’t previously announce it, but Buttigieg’s office told West Wing Playbook that the secretary has actually been on paid leave since mid-August to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies.


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Buttigieg’s time away to help care for his children is the latest example of paid leave for new parents becoming more common in the United States, even at the highest levels of government.

Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget SHALANDA YOUNG is pregnant and is planning to take “time away from the office to be with her daughter after she’s born in the next few weeks,” according to an OMB spokesperson. Sen. TAMMY DUCKWORTH (D-Ill.), the first senator ever to give birth in office, took 12 weeks maternity leave when her daughter was born in 2018, though she famously appeared on the Senate floor with the newborn to cast a vote. ...................................................................




UNICEF Study Confirms: The U.S. Ranks LAST For Family-Friendly Policies

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[vanlassie]

1. If we ever take this seriously, it will be a REAL step

towards improving the empathy quotient of our country for the future. Bonding is a real thing.