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This. I don’t want to take away these benefits from parents, I just want to ensure the employee who is caring for a relative/significant other/mental illness/worsened living space/etc to also be supported.

I work for a great company with top-tier parental leave benefits like these. But if my non-married partner fell back into major depression and required constant suicide watch as they have in the past, while I’m sure my management would be supportive I’m aware of 0 official leave policies that would support me.

All that is true. I have someone on my team who is at 25% of normal due to their children.

However, what about the person who is caring for someone (perhaps an unwed partner friend) with mental illness worsened by the pandemic? Taking care of someone with severe mental illness (e.g. suicidality) can also be extremely draining and time consuming, yet there are almost always 0 official leave benefits for those sorts of situations. And even caring for an elderly parent or sick non-immediate family member tends to receive less support compared to many parental leave policies.