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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

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 * Article title:Parental leave in the United States
 * Article Evaluation:- The leading section is clear, it describes the United States main federally mandated regulation for parental leave, and provides a brief sentence to introduce that the US does not provide paid leave. :- All content is significant to the topic- offers subjects on the history of parental leave prior to the FMLA, our current federal and state legislation, health consequences, economic consequences, impacts on minority groups and fathers, information during covid, and a good summary on the overall critiques of unpaid family leave in the US by comparing it to leave in different continents briefly. The sections about the health consequences may be repetitive, but they hit the necessary implication points.:
 * Additions: the costs of childcare in the United States. There is no universal, quality childcare in the US. If women don't get paid time off, they have to choose between unpaid time off or high costs of child care/low quality child care
 * especially during covid 19 lockdowns
 * Additions: Homosexual fathers receiving less access to family leave data
 * Additions: Benefits for parents of color for paid parental leave-drawing from California's paid leave  -Great sources used, the sources used are primarily scientific journal articles and official org. websites.
 * there is a CNN article- may need to look into finding a comparable journal article  - The article is very well written and organized into important subsections
 * - Only one image used, created and licensed by author
 * Could be useful to find more graphs  - Talk page offered insight into mostly minor edits, feedback was constructed in order to improve understanding of the concept
 * - Article is rated a C for space to add improvements to the article
 * Overall I think this is a very strong article that offers many different subsections and issues related to the topic of familial leave in the United States, hitting most on the topic of the FMLA and health implications. The biggest strength is the organization, everything is clearly divided and well thought out. Although the tone of the article obviously leans towards more negative biases towards unpaid family leave, I think all the data provided is verifiable and valid.
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