In this photograph taken Friday, April 21, 2017 a United States flag patch adorns the uniform of a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s third Brigade Combat Team throughout a coaching train at Fort Bragg, N.C.

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In this photograph taken Friday, April 21, 2017 a United States flag patch adorns the uniform of a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division’s third Brigade Combat Team throughout a coaching train at Fort Bragg, N.C.

Gerry Broome/AP

Members of the navy will now get 12 weeks of parental depart, doubling the earlier quantity, after a memorandum from the Department of Defense went into impact Wednesday.

The 12 weeks are for each birthing and non-birthing dad and mom, which incorporates dad and mom of just lately adopted kids and members who use surrogates, and applies to folks of youngsters born or adopted after Dec. 27, 2022.

Eligible members should be in energetic or reserve obligation for not less than 12 months.

Parents giving beginning may also obtain a interval of convalescence to get better from labor “if such leave is specifically recommended, in writing, by the health care provider of the birth parent to address a diagnosed medical condition and is approved by the unit commander,” the memo states.

The 12-week parental depart should be taken inside the kid’s first 12 months of beginning or adoption.

Military members who undertake a baby who was already dwelling with them should not eligible for the depart. Foster dad and mom could obtain the 12-week depart once they first carry a baby into their residence, however don’t get extra depart in the event that they determine to formally undertake the kid.

Parents may additionally take their depart in increments of not less than seven days, and might obtain extra parental depart for a number of qualifying occasions if there may be not less than 72 hours between the occasions.