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 traditional in hospitals, faculties, and so on.
“Like fewer dad and mom, we weren’t confronted with the tough actuality of both spending these first few crucial months with our child or going again to work,” she wrote. “We knew we may take her residence, and in that important (and sacred) stage, commit any and every part to our youngsters and to our household. We knew that by doing so we would not must make not possible decisions about childcare, work, and medical care that so many must make each single day.”
Meghan continued, “No household ought to be confronted with these selections. No household ought to have to decide on between incomes a residing and having the liberty to deal with their baby (or a beloved one, or themselves, as we’d see with a complete paid go away plan).”