Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Parental Leave Benefits and Maternal Postpartum Mental Health in Sweden
Originally published 2025-04-30 · JAMA Network Open
American Medical Association (AMA) · DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.8062 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Compares basic and earnings-related leave benefits while accounting for preconception health and employment, helping employers consider the conditions attached to financial security.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
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What does benefit generosity mean for parents who have not had stable employment?
Compares basic and earnings-related leave benefits while accounting for preconception health and employment, helping employers consider the conditions attached to financial security.
Study context
210,800 first-time mothers in Sweden who gave birth to a live singleton infant in 2007–2011.
Age / stage: Mothers aged 18–52; postpartum mental-health outcomes.
Read with three questions
- How did basic flat-rate benefits differ from earnings-related benefits?
- What changed after adjustment for preconception mental health, income and employment?
- Why is access to specialist care a different outcome from a wellbeing survey score?
Keep the limits in view
An observational cohort cannot eliminate residual confounding or selection into earnings-related benefits; Swedish register outcomes should not be treated as an individual prognosis.
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Amy Heshmati; Helena Honkaniemi; Sara Fritzell; Sol P Juárez (2025). Parental Leave Benefits and Maternal Postpartum Mental Health in Sweden JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.8062
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