The Benefits of Paid Maternity Leave for Maternal and Child Health (Psychology Today)

Karen Clemmer 4/2/206:45 PM

By Richa Bhatia, MD, March 11, 2020, Psychology Today

New research reviews the benefits of maternity leave.

About 23 percent of employed women in the U.S. return to work within 10 days of giving birth. An evidence-based review published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry earlier this week, which was authored by my team and I, shows that paid maternity leave is linked with significant physical and mental health benefits for mothers as well as their children.

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