“Despite its enthusiasm about 'family values,' the U.S. is decades behind other countries in ensuring the well-being of working families.”

—JANET WALSH, deputy director of the women's rights division of Human Rights Watch, on its new report "Failing its Families," which reveals that 178 countries have federal laws that enforce paid leave for new mothers. Fifty countries also guarantee paid paternal leave, though the U.S. joins Papua New Guinea and Swaziland, among a handful of others, in offering neither. [via AP]