Reflecting on These Early Days
In an October 2021 letter to then-Home Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer explaining her help 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 standard in hospitals, colleges, and so on.
“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 might take her house, and in that important (and sacred) stage, commit any and all the pieces to our youngsters and to our household. We knew that by doing so we would not need to make unimaginable selections about childcare, work, and medical care that so many need to make each single day.”
Meghan continued, “No household needs to be confronted with these selections. No household ought to have to decide on between incomes a dwelling and having the liberty to maintain their little one (or a cherished one, or themselves, as we’d see with a complete paid go away plan).”
