Ms. Convery, you brought up EI benefits. Parental leave, as we understand it, is not just in terms of policy; jurisprudence has weighed in on this as well. Parental leave is for issues of care and attachment. The maternity benefit was established in recognition of unique physiological characteristics of biological parenting--birth, if you will. That's why, for example, a mother who gives birth to a child but gives up that child for adoption gets the maternity benefit.
Presumably, to establish a similar adoption transition leave, for lack of a better name for it--that's what I'm calling it--we'd have to establish unique psychological or other characteristics for adoptive parenting, not attachment issues related to the child. Can you tell us some of the challenges an adoptive mother might face that would require additional time?