Discuss the childcare issues that affect working parents in the U.S

What will be an ideal response?


The student should assert that American parents are plagued by a lack of maternity or paternity leave. Employers who are required by law to provide unpaid leave to an employee for childbirth sometimes discriminate against those employees. Fathers are reluctant to take leave, fearing the stigma that may be attached. Finding quality, affordable daycare is a problem. More than half of day-care centers in the U.S. are rated as poor or fair. Working parents pay from 7% to 28% of their incomes to childcare. Role conflicts occur when a parent has to leave work to get a sick child.

Sociology

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Sociology