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Connections: Maternity & Paternity Leave

We look into maternity and paternity leave in the United States. Last week, New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy made headlines when he took two days off for paternity leave. The headlines, to be fair, came from sports talk radio hosts, who declared that Murphy was taking too much time off. One host said that he should have told his wife to have a C-section last month to avoid missing baseball games. We'll look at the value of parental leave to care for children.

The guests are: Adriana Lozada, maternity consultant amd Dr. Lorelai Thornburg of the University of Rochester Medical Center.  

Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.