{"id":14205,"date":"2018-01-18T18:18:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T18:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/01\/18\/paternity-leave-will-soon-double-navy-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:41:38","slug":"paternity-leave-will-soon-double-navy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/01\/18\/paternity-leave-will-soon-double-navy-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Paternity leave for sailors could soon double, Navy says"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=3c071076-f3c9-4a73-93b3-5d75527ab380\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-3c071076-f3c9-4a73-93b3-5d75527ab380.jpg\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The new law extends to &#8216;legal custodians&#8217; as well as married couples.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy could increase the amount of paid paternity leave in the near future from 10 to as many as 21 days, Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke told sailors at a Jan. 16 career symposium in Yokosuka, Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The policy change, according to Burke, is \u201cnot just going to be for married couples \u2014 it will be for legal custodians as well, reflecting kind of where we are in our modern society,\u201d he said during a talk with sailors at the symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m not really sure exactly where that\u2019s going to end up. 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Jessica Anderson, spokeswoman for CNP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOnce OSD and Department of Navy guidance is released, Navy will release a NAVADMIN with the new leave categories and rules and leave dates authorized, including whether any retroactive entitlements will be authorized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new law allows the Department of Defense to authorize up to 21 days of leave for a \u201csecondary care giver,\u201d but lawmakers didn\u2019t mandate that specific number of days, meaning DoD or the individual services can authorize days up to that amount, but can\u2019t go over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Navy officials say that the because the way the new law was written, the proposed policy could also end up applying to domestic partners who are not a birth parent, depending on DoD authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2015\/10\/14\/cno-service-considering-expanding-paternity-leave\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635804022174617665-navy-chiefmjpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">CNO: Service considering expanding paternity leave<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Navy&#039;s top officer said Tuesday the service is considering extending paternity leave for new fathers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy expects to double the amount of paternity leave sometime in the next month from 10 days to 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":65,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"2":{"categories":["your-military","news","good-news-report","newsletters"],"primary_category":"your-military"}}},"categories":[101,12,26,65],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3087],"class_list":["post-14205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-news","category-newsletters","category-your-navy"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"SRYSSSURUFA4LBCBOKIYLKIYZY","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/01\/18\/paternity-leave-will-soon-double-navy-says\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paternity leave for sailors could soon double, Navy says - Navy Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Navy expects to double the amount of paternity leave sometime in the next month from 10 days to 21.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paternity leave for sailors could soon double, Navy says\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Navy expects to double the amount of paternity leave sometime in the next month from 10 days to 21.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/01\/18\/paternity-leave-will-soon-double-navy-says\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Navy Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-01-18T18:18:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T18:41:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark D. 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