Assertion journal, "We Can Afford to Give Parents a Break"

I agree with Jody Heyman about the government’s ungrateful treatment of mothers and parents. While the US is supposed to be an advanced nation, and a leader of others, it has defiantly screwed up where maternity and sick leave policies are involved.
In America, we haven’t found a way to guarantee paid maternity leave, while in some countries there is also a guaranteed parental leave, so fathers can help out with newborns. America needs to look into what other nations are doing, and they need to take up some of these foreign policies.
Parents have to take of the children, and sometimes their own parents. Many don’t have a promised amount of sick leave, and are too burdened by counting the number of days they can miss, while keeping their job. In America parents are greatly underappreciated, and their rights (to be home with a sick child or to take care of their own health) are being ignored. For once we need to give them a break that they deserve, and show our respect for what they have are doing. Parenting is not easy and they need more support from the government to accomplish what is expected from them.
This abuse has gone on long enough and something needs to be fixed. If America can not guarantee that a new mother wont lose her job because she has to take care of a newborn, or a father’s job, because he needs to be with his son at the hospital, than America is not as advance as others says it is.

Shea, Renee H., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin Aufses. The Language of Composition . Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. 6-8. Print.