Employment and leave while parenting children with medical complexity.

Katherine S KellomCatharine Leigh Wilson-HallDouglas StraneKatherine WuMeredith Matone

Published in: Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare (2023)

Parents want and need to work in order to support their families and pay for the added expenses related to care for their CMC. Remaining active in the workforce requires that they have flexible schedules that accommodate their unpredictable and ongoing caregiving responsibilities. The eligibility criteria and unpaid nature of FMLA, however, make employment and financial stability elusive for caregivers of CMC. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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