Parents are taking more time off work after having a child, a Governmentstudy revealed last week.
The study is the latest in an ongoing series of surveys evaluating theeffects of legal changes on parents who recently had children. This newreport contains the findings of a 2005 survey, which questioned 2,504mothers.
Since the previous survey, in 2002, the Government has extended paidmaternity leave from 18 to 24 weeks and increased the amount of unpaidmaternity leave women employed for at least 26 weeks can take on top ofpaid leave from 29 to 52 weeks.
The survey found the changes had prompted a big rise in the number ofmums taking leave. In 2002, just nine per cent of mothers took sixmonths maternity leave and five per cent went on leave for a whole year.In 2005 nearly half of mums took six months maternity leave and 14 percent were taking a whole year off.
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