NOTES FROM MONTENEGRO

We Don’t Even Know What Maternity Leave Really Is in America

Photo by Juan Encalada on Unsplash

I am in Montenegro, part of the former Yugoslavia, for six weeks. (I fell in love during the pandemic. It’s a long story.) Tonight, I had dinner with a woman who explained to me what happens here when a woman is pregnant: she gets one year “maternity leave” to stay home and nurture her child. That leave is paid for by the…