Western team advocates for attachment leave for adoptive parents
From left to right: Erin Ingard Rau (Adopt4Life associate director), Julie Despaties (Adoppt4Life founder), Cathy Murphy (executive director of Adoption Council of Canada), Nicole Fice (Western PhD student) and Leona Bruijns (Western PhD student) with Calgary Shepard MP Tom Kmiec.
Courtesy of Leona Bruijns.
From the Western Gazette by Judy Basmaji, via the Time to Attach research website
A team of Western University researchers in partnership with Adopt4Life: Ontario’s Adoptive Parents Association is advocating for a new class of employment insurance benefits for adoptive parents, and customary and kin caregivers…