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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Welcome Second Daughter With Powerful Facebook Post

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The Chan-Zuckerberg family just added a fourth member, and her name is August.

Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook (naturally) on Aug. 28 to announce that his wife, Priscilla Chan, had given birth to their second daughter, August. Zuckerberg, who notably took two full months of paternity leave after the birth of his first daughter, Max, took to Facebook just last week to announce that he was planning to do the same for his second daughter. "When Max was born, I took two months of paternity leave. I will always be grateful I could spend so much time with her in the first months of her life," Zuckerberg wrote, before advocating for all new parents to take advantage of as much leave as possible.

Zuckerberg also upheld the tradition he established when Max was born of writing a Facebook post to his new daughter and penned one to August as well, telling his daughter that "even though headlines often focus on what's wrong, we still believe these positive trends will win out. We're optimists about your generation and the future."

Read the text of the Facebook letter in full below, and congratulations to the happy new parents!


Dear August,

Welcome to the world! Your mom and I are so excited to see who you will become.

When your sister was born, we wrote a letter about the world we hoped she and now you will grow up in -- a world with better education, fewer diseases, stronger communities, and greater equality. We wrote that with all the advances in science and technology, your generation should live dramatically better lives than ours, and we have a responsibility to do our part to make that happen. Even though headlines often focus on what's wrong, we still believe these positive trends will win out. We're optimists about your generation and the future.

But rather than write about growing up, we want to talk about childhood. The world can be a serious place. That's why it's important to make time to go outside and play.

You will be busy when you're older, so I hope you take time to smell all the flowers and put all the leaves you want in your bucket now. I hope you read your favorite Dr. Seuss books so many times you start inventing your own stories about the Vipper of Vipp. I hope you ride the carousel with Max until you've tamed every color horse. I hope you run as many laps around our living room and yard as you want. And then I hope you take a lot of naps. I hope you're a great sleeper. And I hope even in your dreams you can feel how much we love you.

Childhood is magical. You only get to be a child once, so don't spend it worrying too much about the future. You've got us for that, and we'll do everything we possibly can to make sure the world is a better place for you and all children in your generation.

August, we love you so much and we're so excited to go on this adventure with you. We wish you a life of joy, love and the same hope you give us.

Love,

Mom and Dad



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