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Jessica Simpson is being brutally ridiculed online by mom-shamers, who slammed the singer for letting her three-year-old daughter use a pacifier despite it putting the toddler at risk for a misaligned jaw.

She was accompanied by her husband, Eric Johnson, and reading help for kindergarten her three kids, Maxwell, 10, Ace, nine, and Birdie, three, for the getaway, and shared a series of snaps that showed the family enjoying a boat ride, jet skiing, and soaking up the Texas sun.

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However, when Instagram users noticed that the Irresistible songstress still allows her youngest child to use a binkie - which could be seen in a few of the pictures - many were left unhappy, pointing out that it can cause problems for kids, especially with oral health.

NHS data shows that each year there are 4,300 visits to hospital by children who end up staying at least two months - often the same children return multiple times - and many parents will have little choice but to take unpaid leave.

Countries including Spain, Sweden, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, Greece and Online Spelling And Vocabulary 6th Grade Program Denmark all offer at least some paid parental leave if a child is seriously unwell, according to analysis by experts at the University of California, Los Angeles.

It's Never You is campaigning for the Government to introduce a statutory child illness pay policy that would operate in a similar way to maternity pay - providing funds from date of diagnosis for up to a year and a guarantee that the parent has a job to return to once treatment is over.

‘I went from a high-salary job to suddenly having negligible income,' says Alastair. The benefits provided an income of £800 per month (£9,600 a year), which didn't cover their mortgage, let alone other bills. ‘We cut back on everything but there were so many extra expenses.
Travel to and from hospital and parking charges cost a fortune. And when you're in hospital, you end up buying ready meals, which cost more.'

‘It's only thanks to their generosity that we were able to hold on to our home,' says Alastair, who has recently returned to a senior position after more than three years away from work. Gideon, now eight, is also doing well.

One parent who experienced this difficult situation is project manager Alastair Christie, from Coventry, who had to quit his £75,000-a-year IT job when his son Gideon, then four, was diagnosed with the aggressive soft tissue cancer rhabdomyosarcoma in 2019.

Rachel Kirby-Rider, chief executive of the charity Young Lives vs Cancer, says: ‘When a child is diagnosed with cancer, often families are rushed to hospital with just the clothes on their backs to start treatment right away.

‘I have no idea what we are going to do then,' says Kathryn, 42, who lives in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, with her husband Simon, 41, an electrician, and Kaiden's brothers Jacob, 14, and Elias, two.

Kathryn says she feels ‘lucky' because her employer, a special educational needs school, allowed her to take six months of her own sick leave at full pay, due to stress. His treatment is due to finish in September. Teacher Kathryn Edwards has been off work since her eight-year-old son Kaiden was diagnosed with medulloblastoma - a malignant brain tumour - in June.
Since then, Kaiden has spent months having surgery, chemotherapy and proton beam therapy.

Gideon underwent 18 months of intense treatment, while Alastair looked after him full-time. His wife Suzanne, who has an auto-immune disorder that meant she couldn't be Gideon's main carer, carried on her part-time Civil Service job to help pay the bills.

According to the charity Young Lives vs Cancer, caring for a sick child also typically adds £730 a month to an average household's expenditure.
Extra costs include travel to and from hospital, parking charges and sterilisation equipment and cleaning materials.