parental leave

(noun)

A leave of absence from a job for a parent to take care of a baby.

Related Terms

Examples of parental leave in the following topics:

  • Population Trends

    • To combat extremely low fertility rates, some of these governments have introduced pro-family policies, such as payments to parents for having children and extensive parental leave for parents.

  • Implications of Different Rates of Growth

    • To combat extremely low fertility rates, some of these governments have introduced pro-family policies that include incentives, such as payments to parents for having children and extensive parental leave for parents.

  • The Cross-Cultural Perspective

    • In Sweden, for example, all working parents are entitled to sixteen months paid leave per child, with the cost shared by the government and the employer.
    • To encourage greater paternal involvement in childrearing, a minimum of two months out of the sixteen is required to be used by the "minority" parent, usually the father.
    • Through policies such as parental leave, European states actively work to promote equality between genders in childrearing and professional lives.

  • Family Structures

    • The two-parent nuclear family has become less prevalent, and alternative family forms such as, homosexual relationships, single-parent households, and adopting individuals are more common.
    • However, 64 percent of children still reside in a two-parent, household as of 2012.
    • A single parent is a parent who cares for one or more children without the assistance of the other biological parent.
    • The sense of marriage as a "permanent" institution has been weakened, allowing individuals to consider leaving marriages more readily than they may have in the past.
    • About 4 percent of children live with a relative other than a parent.

  • The Family Life Cycle

    • Kids raised in families with only one parent or with step-parents are more likely to have behavior problems than are kids raised with parents that remain connected throughout the child's life course.
    • When the relationship between a child and the father is missing, children in single-parent and step-parent families are more likely to act out in negative ways.
    • Analyzing back issues of Parents magazine, Markella Rutherford found that parents face a difficult task of trying to balance authority with childhood autonomy.
    • Known as "parenting by lying," the practice appears to be widespread and ironic, considering most parents also tell their kids not to lie.
    • Thus, while divorce has helped many women leave unhealthy marriages in which they are at risk of great physical and mental harm, the ability to get a divorce easily may also strengthen marriages.

  • Parenthood

    • Parenting is usually carried out by the biological parents of the child in question, although governments and society take a role as well.
    • An uninvolved parenting style is when parents are often emotionally absent and sometimes even physically absent.
    • Helicopter Parenting: over-parenting; parents are constantly involving themselves, interrupting the child's ability to function on their own
    • Strict Parenting: focused on strict discipline; demanding, with high expectations from the parents
    • Parenting is a lifelong process.

  • Authority Patterns

    • Parenting is usually done by the biological parents of the child in question, although governments and society take a role as well.
    • In many cases, orphaned or abandoned children receive parental care from non-parent blood relations.
    • Authoritarian parenting styles can be very rigid and strict.
    • Parents who practice authoritarian style parenting have a strict set of rules and expectations and require rigid obedience.
    • An uninvolved parenting style is when parents are often emotionally absent and sometimes even physically absent.

  • Child Custody Laws

    • Child custody and guardianship are legal terms, which are used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parent's duty to care for the child.
    • While the child is with the parent, that parent retains sole authority over the child.
    • If a child lives with both parents, each parent shares "joint physical custody" and each parent is said to be a "custodial parent. " Thus, in joint physical custody, neither parent is said to be a "non-custodial parent. "
    • A custodial parent is a parent who is given physical and/or legal custody of a child by court order.
    • A non-custodial parent is a parent who does not have physical and/or legal custody of his/her child by court order.

  • Child Rearing

    • Parenting refers to aspects of raising a child aside from the biological relationship.
    • Parenting is usually done by the biological parents of the child in question, with governments and society playing ancillary roles.
    • Orphaned or abandoned children are often reared by non-parent blood relations.
    • These parenting styles were later expanded to four, including an Uninvolved style.
    • Authoritarian parenting is very rigid and strict.

  • Sect

    • In the church-sect typology, sects are described as newly formed religious groups that form to protest elements of their parent religion.
    • A sect may also have members who choose to leave later, whereas a cult uses any means necessary to keep its members, including coercion.