Tag Archive | paternity leave

Baby Pedroia in the Deep Blue Sea

A fun bit of paternity leave news came out of last night’s heartbreaking Sox-Yanks game (no seriously, it sucked, why did you swing at the first pitch, Jacoby?  Why?  And yes, a game against your arch-rival who is eons ahead of you in the standings can still be heartbreaking.): Dustin Pedroia was pulled out of [...]

Paternity Leave in Professional Sports

While nearly everyone who chooses to juggle a career and parenting faces difficult challenges, as I mentioned in my post about Griswold v. Connecticut, athletes face a particularly tough balancing act because the window for their career is so much shorter than for other careers and because the best time for childbearing coincides with the height of [...]