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" The United Kingdom has blown us Americans\u00A0away once again, and consequently made us extremely\u00A0jealous of the people who live there. After making shared parental leave possible in the UK last April, which enables &amp;quot;working mothers to transfer their leave and pay to their partners,&amp;quot; according to the Huffington Post, they have now announced a plan to allow parents to give part of their year-long leave to their baby&amp;#039;s grandparents. Grannies and grampies rejoice! Before this plan was introduced, grandparents weren&amp;#039;t able to be put on paid or unpaid leave to bond with their grandchildren and change some dirty diapers.\u00A0But by bringing in grandparents to the shared parental leave plan, both parents can then return to work quicker than they could without the option. Although some are skeptical.\u00A0They think\u00A0it defeats the purpose of even having parental leave, which,\u00A0in essence, is to forge a relationship with your new baby. But then again, &amp;quot;More than half of mothers rely on grandparents for childcare when they first return to work after having a baby,&amp;quot; Chancellor George Osborne told the Daily Mail. &amp;quot;In many families, grandparents play a central role in caring for their grandchildren and helping to keep down the costs of childcare.&amp;quot; Saving money is never a bad thing, and we bet grandparents around the world would not object to being paid to spend time with their little lovebugs. If only this was a reality in the U.S.! We can dream.\u00A0 [via Huffington Post] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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