This Capital One employee utilized benefits to foster 50 children

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Chelsea Brignac sits with all four of her children.

  • Key Insight: Learn how comprehensive family-building benefits can materially stabilize and retain talent.  
  • What’s at Stake: Companies ignoring inclusive parental benefits risk turnover, legal exposure, and equity gaps.  
  • Supporting Data: Only 34% offer paid adoption leave; 25% offer paid foster-child leave.  
  • Source: Bullets generated by AI with editorial review

Shortly after getting married, Chelsea Brignac, unit manager in specialty funding at Capital One, received a life changing phone call. Her 8-month old niece and 18-month old nephew had entered foster care, and the newlyweds were being asked if they wanted to take them in as next of kin

Paola Peralta
Associate Editor

Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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