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- Oct 29, 2015
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Employers: It's Time to Get Real about 'Real' Families

Updated: Nov 17, 2020

Posted on October 29, 2015, on Huffington Post:

National Work and Family Month are drawing to a close. But in these last few days before month's end, can we please pause to consider exactly what we mean by "family"?

Adam Pertman has a bone to pick. The journalist-turned-adoption-reformer doesn't think employers or insurance companies are doing nearly enough for adoptive (or would-be adoptive) parents. Sure, the most progressive companies offer partial reimbursement for adoption costs, paid leave, and sometimes educational support and resources--as I know from my own work helping companies put together "great place to work" applications.

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