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Women can take enough leave so that they don't have to breastfeed their baby's when they are back at work already.

In Canada we get 12 months' parental leave, split up between father and mother how they see fit. The mother can take 12 months, or the father can take 12 months, or they can split it up 6/6 or 3/9 etc.

What happens to a single new mother in the US?

We get 18 months of which 3 for some small benefit (20 dollars per day) and the rest for 80% of your salary up to a max of around 3500 euro per month. Often employers top this up t0 90 or 100%.
Here however 3 months are non transferable.....so every parent needs to take at least 3 months (or loose those three months of course) and if you split it 50/50 you get some small bonus as well.