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Say you give birth to a baby in America today.
First you have to figure out how to feed it: Hopefully you can breastfeed, because the country’s infant formula shortage is getting worse, with families driving hundreds of miles or paying hundreds of dollars just to get their children the nutrition they need.
Then you have to take care of it — and good luck with that, since the US is the only wealthy country in the world without paid parental leave. Also, child care costs more than college in many states, if you can even find a provider — more than half of Americans live in child care deserts, where there are more than three kids for every spot in day care.
Once your kid turns 5, though, at least they can go to school … where they have to endure “active shooter drills” in case what happened in Uvalde or Sandy Hook or Parkland happens at their school, too.
And that’s not even accounting for the ongoing Covid-19 […]
I believe it mostly depends upon where you work. If you work directly for the government, you are covered and have maternity leave, or even if you work independently from the government but for a company which does business mainly with the government then you are also covered. I know this because I used to work for a company which made parts for the space shuttle. It also made Tantalum capacitors which were in my father’s pacemaker and helped add 10 years to his life.