๐ถ Parental Leave in the U.S. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ก์ํด์ง
Parental leave in the U.S. is terrible. Among the 38 OECD countries, the U.S. is the only country that doesnโt require companies to provide paid maternity leave. Currently, the only legislation in place is The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA). It requires that companies (with more than 50 employees) provide 12 weeks of unpaid parental leave. Thatโs right, unpaid leave.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ถ์ฐยท์ก์ ๊ด๋ จ ํด์ง์ ๋๋ ํํธ์์ต๋๋ค. OECD 38๊ฐ ๊ตญ๊ฐ ์ค ๊ธฐ์
์ด ์ ๊ธ ์ถ์ฐ ํด๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ์ง ์์๋ ๋๋ ๋๋ผ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋ฟ์ด์ฃ . ํ์ฌ ์ํ ์ค์ธ ์ ์ผํ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์ โ๊ฐ์กฑ ๋ฐ ์๋ฃ ํด๊ฐ๋ฒ (The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, FMLA)โ์ด์์. ์ด ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ง์ ์ด 50๋ช
์ด์์ธ ๊ธฐ์
์ 12์ฃผ๊ฐ์ ๋ฌด๊ธ ์ก์ํด์ง์ ์ ๊ณตํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ ๋งํ์ง๋ง, ๋ฌด๊ธ์ด์์.
Do you think you and your partner can survive if both of you stopped working for 12 weeks? Currently, only California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island require paid parental leave. If youโre having a baby in the states, make sure you check the laws in the state you currently reside in.
์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๊ณผ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์๋ 12์ฃผ ๋์ ์ผ์ ํ์ง ์๊ณ ๋ ์ด ์ ์๋์? ํ์ฌ ์บ๋ฆฌํฌ๋์, ๋ด์ ์ง, ๋ก๋์์ผ๋๋์ฃผ์์๋ง ์ ๊ธ ์ก์ํด์ง์ ์๋ฌดํํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ถ์ฐํ๋ค๋ฉด ํ์ฌ ์ด๊ณ ์๋ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์ ๊ผญ ํ์ธํด ๋ณด์ธ์.
As for aftercare, most Americans spend about one day in the hospital after giving birth. Then the women only rest at home for a few weeks before returning to work. The fathers usually donโt rest at all; maybe a week at most.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ฐํ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ถ์ฐ ํ ํ๋ฃจ ์ ๋ ๋ณ์์ ์
์ํ๊ณ ์ง์์ ๊ฒจ์ฐ ๋ช ์ฃผ ํด์์ ์ทจํ ํ ์ง์ฅ์ผ๋ก ๋ณต๊ทํ๋ ์์ด์์. ์๋น ๋ค์ ๊ธฐ๊ปํด์ผ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ์ ๋ ์ด ๋ฟ ๋ณดํต ์ฌ๋ ๋ ์ด ์ ํ ์์ด์.
As I said in the beginning, the U.S. has one of the worst parental leave plans in the developed world. Of course, some companies do provide paid parental leave and youโll have more options with better insurance. However, the reality is that the typical American doesnโt get to take much parental leave.
์์ ๋งํ๋ฏ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ ์ง๊ตญ ์ค์์ ์ก์ ํด์ง์ ๋๊ฐ ์ต์
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๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ก์ ํด์ง์ด ์ ๊ธ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ฅ๋๊ณ ์ฐ์ํ ๋ณดํ์ ํตํด ๋ค์ํ ์ต์
์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ํ์ฌ๋ ์์ด์. ํ์ง๋ง ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ก์ ํด์ง์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ํ์ฉํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ํ์ค์
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