One of the more baffling disparities faced by adoptive parents is the fact that there is no equivalent of maternity or paternity pay if you’re self-employed.
If you’re a staffer you’ll be given parenting leave, whether you give birth biologically or adopt. And if you’re self-employed you’ll get the equivalent financial support if you’ve given birth. But if you’re self-employed and you adopt? Nope, you’re on your own.
But one campaigner is now fighting to get the government to make the system more equitable, with a growing army of volunteers from the adoption community and beyond behind her.
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