This VICE documentary explores the pros and cons of paid parental leave and asks why the U.S. offers so little – if any – financial support to new mothers and fathers.

Are you entitled to paid parental leave in your country, and for how long?

In this VICE documentary for their gender and identity channel Broadly, presenter Tracie Egan Morrissey asks why the U.S. is the only industrialized nation with no federal law mandating paid maternity leave.

Speaking to American parents, policy-makers, and experts, Morrissey hears arguments for and against paid maternity leave.

Morrissey also travels to Papua New Guinea and Sweden, countries with arguably the worst and best conditions for new mothers, respectively, to consider how they compare to America.

Maternity Leave: How America Is Failing Its Mothers is part of Broadly's Ovary Action series, which focuses on reproductive health.