Reflecting on These Early Days
In an October 2021 letter to then-Home Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer explaining her assist for obligatory paid parental go away 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 so forth.
“Like fewer mother and father, we weren’t confronted with the cruel actuality of both spending these first few important months with our child or going again to work,” she wrote. “We knew we may take her residence, and in that very important (and sacred) stage, commit any and every little thing to our children and to our household. We knew that by doing so we would not should make unimaginable decisions about childcare, work, and medical care that so many should make each single day.”
Meghan continued, “No household needs to be confronted with these choices. No household ought to have to decide on between incomes a residing and having the liberty to deal with their youngster (or a liked one, or themselves, as we’d see with a complete paid go away plan).”
