{"id":27301,"date":"2021-10-26T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=27301"},"modified":"2021-10-26T11:43:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:43:34","slug":"white-house-defends-paternity-leave-for-transportation-secretary-pete-buttigieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2021\/10\/white-house-defends-paternity-leave-for-transportation-secretary-pete-buttigieg\/","title":{"rendered":"White House defends paternity leave for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Peteandtwins-1-1024x645.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Peteandtwins-1-1024x645.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Peteandtwins-1-300x189.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Peteandtwins-1-768x484.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Peteandtwins-1.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confronted a far-right reporter\u2019s attempts to suggest that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is abandoning his responsibilities because he has taken a paternity leave to care for his two newborn children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <em>Newsmax\u00a0<\/em>reporter asked a series of questions during a recent press briefing, and attempted to connect the supply chain problem and Buttigieg\u2019s leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psaki responded, \u201cI took 12 weeks of maternity leave when I was the White House Communications Director, and I\u2019m grateful to former President Obama for that and for leadership at the time for that,\u201d Psaki shared. \u201cThis is something men and women should have. They should have this time to bond with their children. [We\u2019re] not going to apologize\u2026 for that from here. And, certainly, we are able to get the job done for the American people in the interim.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary Buttigieg spent much of the last week&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2021\/10\/pete-buttigieg-goes-view-spells-every-new-dad-take-paternity-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">making appearances on television shows<\/a>&nbsp;explaining why conservatives who criticized him for taking paternity leave to raise his newborn children are hypocrites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen somebody welcomes a new child into their family and goes on leave to take care of that child, that\u2019s not a vacation,\u201d Buttigieg&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2021\/10\/pete-buttigieg-responds-bizarre-gop-attack-hes-taking-care-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said on&nbsp;<em>Meet the Press&nbsp;<\/em>this past weekend<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s work. It\u2019s joyful, wonderful, fulfilling work, but it is work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s time that our nation join pretty much every other country in the world and recognize that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\">LGBTQ Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confronted a far-right reporter\u2019s attempts to suggest that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is abandoning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,64],"tags":[14335],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>White House defends paternity leave for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg - 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