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 depart within the U.S., Meghan wrote of being “overjoyed” however “overwhelmed” when her daughter was born when the pandemic was nonetheless stopping enterprise as regular in hospitals, faculties, and so forth.
“Like fewer mother and father, we weren’t confronted with the tough 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 dwelling, and in that important (and sacred) stage, dedicate any and every little thing to our children 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 ought to be confronted with these choices. No household ought to have to decide on between incomes a residing and having the liberty to maintain their youngster (or a beloved one, or themselves, as we might see with a complete paid depart plan).”
