Support the Farley-Kluger Amendment

I lost my only child in 2001 in a car accident here in Arizona and over the years, wrote a book, gave lectures and did a lot of media on loss. In January 2011, I joined with Kelly Farley, a grieving father from Illinois and we began a petition to Congress for the Farley-Kluger Amendment to the FMLA to add loss of a child as a covered absence. Currently, under FMLA, you can take up to 12 weeks unpaid for adoption, birth or illness in the family. There is no provision for grief. (www.farleykluger.com<http://www.farleykluger.com/>).

Please join The JED Foundation (www.jedfoundation.org), M.I.S.S. Foundation (www.missfoundation.org), Parents of Murdered Children(www.pomc.com), Marine Parents and Gold Star Families (www.marineparents.com), Blue Star Families (www.bluestarfam.org) and 33,000 other parents who have lost a child or know someone who lost a child in service, a victim of murder, suicide, illness or accidents.

In late 2011, Senator Jon Tester introduced S1358, the Parental Bereavement Act of 2011, inspired by The Farley-Kluger Amendment to add loss of a child to covered conditions. In March, we travel to Washington to urge The U.S. House of Representatives to introduce a similar bill.

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