Platform : Family Leave: Will It Make a Difference? : CHARLOTTE CLARK, Journalist, Tustin
<i> Compiled for The Times by Danica Kirka</i>
In 1988, my mother was very ill in a nursing home. I was horrified (when I saw her.) The doctors told me she didn’t have long. I told my boss and he was not very empathetic. I asked for a leave.
I left on what I thought was a year’s leave. (They never took me back.) I think if family leave had been law, I might have been able to use this as a backup.
You regret it when you look at the bank book. But there are just some things in life that you have to make a call on, and you live with it. It’s in your gut. My mother has since died. And let’s face it, it is not a perfect world. But I can sleep at night. I was there.
