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Cuba wants more babies, so it’s giving parental leave to grandparents, too

February 12, 2017

Nick Miroff, Washington Post
Photo Credit: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters

MEXICO CITY — Cuba is giving parental leave to the grandparents of newborns, the country's latest attempt to reverse its sagging birthrate and defuse a demographic time bomb.

The island already has one of the most generous parental leave policies in the Americas, allowing mothers and fathers to take more than a year off from work at partial pay. The new decree extends those benefits to maternal and paternal grandparents.

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