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meet christine john a mother of two like a lot of mothers in america she faced a difficult choice after giving birth to a newborn baby stay home or go back to work i was pregnant and looking to see what my auctions were for maternity leave there weren't any it was all just fmla which obviously does not it just guarantees your job and does not give you any pay and short term disability the family medical leaved act of 1993 is a labor law that allows eligible employees of covered employers to take job-protected unpaid 12 weeks of leave christine qualified for short-term disability but the policy would only provide 60 percent of her pay which she says wasn't enough to cover expenses with a new baby christine who worked at the archdiocese of washington's pastoral center in maryland at the time was appalled at the options provided to her it's so stressful as especially as a new mother to think about what you're gonna do in those like you know i have to go back to work in what two weeks four weeks and to have this newborn and you have to figure out what it's like to be a mother and how to be okay with your body and your mental state christine advocated for paid maternity leave in the archdiocese of washington today the archdiocese of washington offers eight weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave ing to an extensive report in march on the status of maternity leave in the u.s catholic church the archdiocese of washington is just one of a few dioceses that offer any paid leave this report was published by the media company femme catholic which was founded by samantha povlock who seeks to educate encourage and empower catholic women by covering stories that affects them we know that the church does support families and is very pro-life and so what are the policies what is going on on the ground and we wanted to investigate femme catholic reached out to 176 dioceses across all 50 states including washington d.c not every diocese responded from those which did the results were startling only 31 dioceses offer fully paid maternity leave 32 provide some percentage of employee salaries through state paid leave loss or short-term disability and 44 do not offer any paid leave based on the findings there was little correlation between the financial status of each diocese and how many days of paid leave was provided for employees some dioceses only offer a few days of leave while the most generous diocese offer leave up to 12 weeks from a medical standpoint ob gyn dr lester ruppersberger says women need at least six weeks postpartum to recover i've seen patients in my office six weeks postpartum that are still exhausted still have to get up in the middle of the night still not back to normal not completely healed dr rubersberger a former president of the catholic medical association says providing paid family leave brings so many benefits to the family as a whole he says this is an opportunity for the catholic church to evangelize and show how they value family if they want to recognize parenthood and motherhood and fatherhood and the benefit of the family using the holy family as a model then they should definitely be in the leadership role of providing this up front that was the goal of the diocese of raleigh north carolina to be on the forefront of providing its employees with more than just the necessary benefits in 2018 using the fmla as its framework the diocese began offering 12 weeks of paid family leave for all employees why not try to implement something that is above and beyond what we have to do it is it's from an employment standpoint it's it's a good attractor it is good for retention and from a social justice standpoint it just is the right thing to do the diocese of raleigh is arguably the most charitable in the country in providing paid family leave its policy applies to all eligible diocesan employees across schools parishes and agencies femme catholics report says many dioceses lack paid leave for a variety of reasons ranging from no legal requirements to small staff house explains that providing this benefit is financially feasible look at what is currently being done look at the amount of leave that's already being taken and see if there's any middle ground that could be found to to allow your employees to take even a little bit more paid leave so that they don't have to choose between caring for their family and their job in an effort to raise more awareness for the need for paid maternity leave femme catholic ceo samantha povlock also spearheaded a paid leave petition we are asking them to take a careful look at all the information we've compiled all the data all the church teachings and things that various popes have said over the years and to really take it to prayer and consider consider this issue christine sends a message to other catholic mothers we're taught as young women and as little children to idolize mary and to be more like mary we should be the mother that we have been called to be and also know that that we are worthy of of everything so we we deserve that support hopefully we turn this around hopefully that you know we may not do it for ourselves but we might do it for our daughters roselle regis ewtn news in depth [Music] you