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Atlanta’s Paid Parental Leave Expansion Makes Fathers Visible

For much of our history, public systems have encountered Dad through child support enforcement, family court, custody disputes, incarceration, employment problems, or conflict with a co-parent. Far less often do systems meet him at the beginning, when he stands beside a crib, trying to figure out how to become the father his child needs.

Atlanta’s new policy doesn’t resolve every challenge working parents face. But it does place fathers inside the definition of caregiving rather than outside of it.