Abstract
In The Lancet Public Health, Katharine M Barry and colleagues1 and Amy Heshmati and colleagues2 focus on the important association between paid leave uptake and mental health among new parents. In their systematic review, Heshmati and colleagues2 report that parental leave could be protective against poor mental health for mothers in the post-partum period, especially paid leave of at least 2–3 months. They found some evidence that fathers’ mental health improved in the presence of policies that provided adequate wage replacement or other incentives to take leave, but did not find strong evidence for indirect effects of parental leave use on partners’ mental health.
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