Family Health Policy

No, your baby is not automatically covered. To add a newborn to your health insurance, you have to notify your plan yourself, usually within … Read more

The United States has no federal paid parental leave. What you get is a stack of up to four separate layers: unpaid but job-protected … Read more

Nervous is normal. Most people rehearse how to talk to their employer about pumping breaks for weeks, and nearly all of that anxiety comes … Read more

Medical sociology is the systematic study of how social forces — culture, money, race, gender, work and institutions — shape health, illness, and the … Read more

Family leave affects a mother’s career path through lost income, lost visibility and a slower track back to senior work, and how much damage … Read more

Indigenous maternal health disparities persist because the systems built to care for pregnant Indigenous women were never designed with them in mind, and because … Read more

Black women die in pregnancy and the first 42 days after birth at roughly two to three times the rate of white women in … Read more

A second-parent adoption is a court proceeding in which one adult adopts their partner’s child, so the non-gestational parent becomes a legal parent with … Read more

Understanding how foster care placements work for babies comes down to one idea: a placement is a court-approved, temporary safety decision, not a verdict … Read more

The fastest way to tell good health information from bad online is to check four things before you believe anything: who wrote it and … Read more