Coping
This caught my eye today. It asks a very good question.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21841950
My answer is a resounding YES. New parents have considerable statutory rights to protected leave of absence from work; the newly bereaved have very limited and ill-defined entitlements. That needs to change.
Quintin Jardine's blog 
When my first husband was very ill we were called to his bedside. My daughter was there for two days leave taken from a company which uses a big red phone as there logo. When my husband made a recovery, just for a matter of weeks I might add, and my daughter returned to work she was informed that she would have to take those days as holidays because her dad DID NOT DIE!! Rather a Direct statement.