Mark Zuckerberg is taking paternity leave now that his second daughter has been born

(Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg with their youngsters, August (left) and Max.facebook)

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced the birth of their 2nd daughter on Monday.

The couple discovered the female's name — August — but failed to reveal another details about her, inclusive of what day she changed into born.

Zuckerberg recently stated that he could take two months of paternity go away after his 2d baby's beginning — facebook gives four months of maternity and paternity depart to all personnel. he'll take the first month immediately and then he'll go on leave once more for the entire month of December.

Zuckerberg and Chan's first daughter, Max, turned into born in 2015. The couple unveiled their philanthropic fund, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, on the same day they introduced Max's beginning. The fund, which is subsidized through Zuckerberg's fb fortune, hopes to cure the world's illnesses with the aid of the give up of this century.

Here's the letter Zuckerberg and Chan wrote to August, which Zuckerberg shared Monday on his facebook web page:

pricey August,

Welcome to the arena! Your mom and that i are so excited to look who you will become.
while your sister become born, we wrote a letter about the world we was hoping she and now you'll grow up in — a world with higher schooling, fewer illnesses, stronger communities, and extra equality. We wrote that with all of the advances in science and era, your technology have to live dramatically higher lives than ours, and we've got a obligation to do our part to make that happen. despite the fact that headlines regularly consciousness on what's wrong, we nonetheless accept as true with those fantastic trends will win out. we are optimists about your generation and the future.
however in preference to write approximately developing up, we want to talk approximately early life. the arena can be a serious place. it is why it is crucial to make time to go outside and play.
you'll be busy whilst you're older, so i hope you're taking time to smell all the flora and put all the leaves you want on your bucket now. i am hoping you read your favourite Dr. Seuss books so normally you begin inventing your very own tales approximately the Vipper of Vipp. i'm hoping you journey the carousel with Max until you have tamed each colour horse. i am hoping you run as many laps round our residing room and yard as you want. after which i am hoping you take lots of naps. i am hoping you're a fantastic sleeper. and i desire even in your dreams you may experience how a good deal we like you.
youth is magical. You only get to be a infant as soon as, so don't spend it stressful an excessive amount of about the destiny. you have got us for that, and we will do the whole thing we in all likelihood can to make certain the arena is a better location for you and all youngsters on your technology.
August, we adore you a lot and we're so excited to move in this journey with you. We want you a life of joy, love and the identical desire you deliver us.
Love,
dad and mom