Fired for Pregnancy

A young wife and mother came to see me once. She had told her employer the happy news (for her) that she was pregnant. She was overjoyed. Her employer responded, "Well, I shall have to let you go then [fire you]." As I often do in such situations, I offered to speak to her employer. But the young woman said, "Not yet." OBSERVATION: When I do speak to, say, an employer, I may say nothing about the problem. The conversation in itself may be enough to turn things around. People get the point.