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BY ROBIN HILBORN, Family Helper editor
(Aug. 14, 2008) The Adoption Council of Canada has announced that it is helping challenge the Canadian government to recognize that adoptive parents, although they do not give birth to a child, have significant parallel issues which are equivalent to those of parents who do give birth.
Currently, 35 weeks of Employment Insurance benefits for parental leave are accessible to adoptive parents. However the 15 weeks of maternity benefits are not available to those who become parents through adoption rather than birth.
Cindy Haftner (an ACC Director and Executive Director of the Adoption Support Centre of Saskatchewan) has prepared a paper on EI Benefits and Adoptive Parents which is a PDF file available from the Adoption Council of Canada.
ACC encourages members of the adoption community to write a letter to their Member of Parliament urging them to create equality for adoptive parents and their children. This document may be used as a template: Sample Letter to your M.P. You can find your M.P. by entering your postal code here.
Sunrise Adoption offers an article on adoption and the workplace which explains the inequality in benefits.
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