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Is an adoptive mother entitled to maternity leave

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Is an Adoptive Mother Entitled to Maternity Leave?
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Maternity leave policies allow employees to leave their job following the birth of a child
temporarily. When a worker is expecting, the employer is expected to receive a maternity leave
request sometime before the delivery if there are any complications and after birth to give them
time to recover and care for the child. However, for the adoptive mothers, the case is different.
The adoptive mother is not pregnant, and no do they need time to give birth which leaves the
question if they are; legible for maternity leave. Some argue that adoptive mother does not need
maternity leave since they don’t need time to give birth or breastfeed.
As an arbitrator, I would stand with the point that adoptive mothers should be entitled to
maternity. Although they don't go through labor and pregnancy, which needs them to restore
their wellbeing and health, adoptive mothers need time to bond and nature their adopted children.
According to Feldman (2007), the interaction between a mother or parent and child is the process
that initiates the child into the social world and norms. Parents use this attunement to penetrate
their child’s internal rhythm and identify and respond to their emotional signs (Plotka & Busch-
Rossnagel, 2018). The law on maternity leave applies the same to the adoptive parent is a parent
who has given birth to the baby. Caring and bonding are also factors of natal care, as important
as healing the mother who gave birth. Otherwise, if a parent adopts a child and fails to create
time to let them feel safe with them, they would develop feelings of rejection, anxiety, and
hostility, and infants would experience attachment of insecurity and view their adoptive parents
as unreliable.
Maternity leave is essential to the adopted child. They develop a sense of attachment
security (Plotka & Busch-Rossnagel, 2018). When children expire safety and comfort from their
adoptive parents and are given a chance to explore independently, they become self-reliant and
prompt confidence and emotional regulation, leading to their positive development.

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