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Hey in the US no one is entitles to any maternity leave - count your self lucky.

Thanks, I won't.

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[nineveh_uk]

I think that hypothetical fraud has to be considered. If it is easy for me to think of ways of making money out of parental leave associated with surrogacy including in circumstances in which there isn’t even a surrogate pregnancy, then other people can too, both people prepared to commit fraud (you could get a lot of money from an employer with a good scheme), and people prepared to use the spectre of it to deprive women of their existing rights.

Where there is actually a formal adoption then the unpaid parental leave followed by adoption leave does work, I think, but this doesn't cover all surrogacy situations, for some of which adoption is not a legal possibility.