Talk:Parental leave in the United States/Archives/2019

Edits and additions to Current legislation section
I've added, copyedited and cited new sources for the current legislation section. The current legislation section of the Wikipedia page was lacking in many areas. (a) The information was outdated and frankly, there was very little about it and the issues surrounding it. (b) The section was brief to an extent where a lot of the writing choices did not flow easily together and may have not been prepared well for someone who really knew nothing about federal legislation in regards to maternity leave; in other words, it followed a skim version rather than a guided version. (c) Lastly, this section lacked expansion in terms of the definition of statistics and laws mentioned, and adequate citations to back up the fullness of federal legislation of maternity leave.

Biased Language
I've nominated the article for a Point Of View check.

While informative, the article is also written with left-leaning phrasing. The slanted language comes out the heaviest in the Foreign Comparisons section.

Whenever you say the United States (or any country or state) "provides" maternity leave, you'd be more honest if you wrote that said entity "mandates" maternity leave instead. The government of a country is not the entity giving the maternity leave. It is mandating that employers (including itself when applicable) give maternity leave.

Amaroq64 (talk) 12:29, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * This is very sparse and kind of disingenuous. The language use in this article is not necessarily bias and your argumentation does not show that. This is more WP:POINT than anything else. Coltsfan (talk) 18:14, 4 May 2016 (UTC)


 * How else should a government possibly provide maternity leave than by mandating it from employers? --Yhdwww (talk) 18:42, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

In the maternal health section, the article used a reference does not agree with the text that is written on the page. While the reference article clearly says that there may be some change in frequency, actual benefits of longer leave are inconclusive. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.212.248.224 (talk) 18:41, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

I second this as it is less of an informative article than it is a "persuasive" one. 47.12.96.135 (talk) 19:19, 28 July 2019 (UTC)