NEW: Giving parents paid time off to care for their newborns is linked to a number of health benefits for the child, and could even prevent hundreds of deaths.
Yet, the U.S. is somehow still the only industrialized country in the world without paid leave.
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"The research found 339 fewer deaths, on average, during the first year of life in California compared to states with no maternity leave, and according to the scientists' estimations, three months of paid parental leave nationwide could save nearly a thousand babies per year."
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