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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think this is the childcare leave people are talking about. Parents have been unable to work because teachers aren't back in person. Teachers and school districts have no sympathy- they said to hire childcare. And now teachers are saying they can't work because of daycare and childcare issues. [/quote]

Yes, this.[/quote]

Yes, the issue is teachers saying they can't work because they have kids at home. It's mindblowing. [/quote]

"Parental leave" is generally related to birth or adoption of a newborn.  Is that what OP is talking about?  Because I don't see anyone in the schools debate talking about preventing people from taking leave related to a newborn.  [/quote]

I asked if people who took Parental Leave realize the hypocrisy of then protesting when people take other types of FMLA leave.

It doesn't surprise me, I got attacked here for making a comment about taking FMLA when my child had a fatal degenerative disorder, and was told that people only supported it for healthy newborns.  [/quote]

The OP is probably long gone here, but I really wonder what the story is here.

OP, if started your post talking about FMLA leave, I think you would have mostly gotten support. But instead you seemed to be equating parental leave (which is generally understood to mean shortly after birth for recovery and bonding) with "childcare leave."  And then later equating that to FMLA.

I've never heard anyone call leave taken for the purposes of caring for a sick child "childcare leave." Childcare leave instead sounds like leave taken because you don't have a childcare provider. In general, that would not be covered by FMLA unless the child needs care due to a serious health condition.

FMLA for newborns/adoption, or other forms of parental leave, are not intended as entitlements to help people avoid child care costs. I do recognize some people look at that as a side (or perhaps even the primary benefit), but the intended benefit is to give parents time to form a bond with a new child, for which there is reasonably good evidence supporting the benefits of that for development, health and safety of the child.

So, FMLA is not intended to be a catch-all covering all cases where parents want to keep their jobs, but don't want to seek alternative child care arrangements. And specifically, even in the time of COVID, FMLA is for caring for a family member that is already sick, not for avoiding exposure in the first place. I wonder if that is really what the OP is running into.[/quote]

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