What you need to know about the cradle act

The Act seeks to get maternity and paternity leave for both biological and adoptive parents (Photo: Shutterstock)

The cradle act or Child Rearing and Development Leave Empowerment Act, was proposed by Senator Mike Lee and Joni Ernst in the U.S. It’s a recent proposal that was coined in 2019 and it recommends that working parents should be allowed paid maternity/paternity leave between one and three months but compensate with delayed retirement benefits in future. This applies to biological and adoptive parents.

When people heard of that proposal, some were happy but others weren’t for many reasons.