What Sarah learned on parental leave

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Sarah, Matt, and Ezra dive into how other countries design parental leave policies — and what the US could do better. Plus: a white paper on subways, and outer space! References and further reading: RAND review on child care allowance Pew research finds birthrates are down while the desire to have kids is not ProPublica relates mothers to candy wrappers Henrik Levin charts attitudes toward working mothers with school-age children White paper on subways and pollution in urban centers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Wait, does someone want a banter with me?
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Glacias here with Ezra Klein and back with us.
0:23.0	Sarah Cliff.
0:24.0	Oh shit!
0:25.0	I'm here.
0:26.0	Whoa!
0:26.0	Where have you been?
0:27.0	I have been on parental leave. I had a baby in June and he is great and his name is Max and he's about four months old now.
0:28.0	When he's in the woods.
0:38.0	Whenever Jose invites him on.
0:39.0	Jose is the elder Weedsling.
0:41.0	I believe we would have to lead that episode.
0:43.0	Yeah, we'll have to start.
0:43.0	He's slurred to talk.
0:45.0	Maybe it's yeah, talking is important.
0:46.0	So.
0:47.0	So we thought we would come back to this with actually talking about leave policy and child and family policy.
0:49.0	It's like I've been interested in for the past three and a half years.
0:50.0	Give her a take.
0:57.0	And now I have a second host to talk about this with me and what do you think?
1:01.0	Yeah, so as someone who was recently on leave and someone interested in policy.
1:03.0	It was I spent a little while this week kind of diving into the research around parental leave and child care.
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