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Without good, affordable day care, work for mothers becomes either extremely difficult, too costly, or impossible.
Single mothers are among the worst-off groups in the region, particularly in Poland and the former East Germany.
Some of these problems may be handled by targeting assistance or by giving 'vouchers' to the poorest children or to single mothers.
But far too many mothers and newborns are still dying from preventable causes.
Each year, one million children, on average, still die during their first day of life; more than million babies are stillborn; and more than 300,000 mothers die during pregnancy and childbirth – a death toll exceeding the entire population of Namibia.
As birth attendants, midwives are ideally positioned to save the lives of mothers and children during childbirth.
Midwives’ services extend far beyond pregnancy and birth to include essential education, health monitoring, and primary care for babies, adolescents, and mothers throughout the life cycle.
They provide information about reproductive health, which can help stop the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, and about hygiene and healthy lifestyles; and they are often the ones who administer and monitor the vaccination and immunization of expectant mothers, newborns, and infants.
Policies and funding to support midwife education, training, and regulation can produce up to a sixteenfold return on investment, because when midwives are involved in pregnancy and childbirth, mothers are less likely to require expensive emergency interventions such as caesarean sections.
The conventional wisdom will tell you that the MDGs targets – reducing poverty and hunger, improving the health of mothers and children, combating HIV/AIDS, increasing access to education, protecting the environment, and forging a global partnership for development – are simply unattainable.
Once imprisoned abroad, such mothers, with no legal support or economic resources, often have no contact with their children back home.
Despite overwhelming evidence that gender-based stereotypes and expectations can adversely impact health, gender-related health issues are largely ignored or misunderstood, with international health organizations often limiting gender-specific efforts to women or, even more narrowly, to mothers.
We need founding fathers – or mothers – and nations moved by a clear understanding of their interests and a popular enthusiasm for European integration.
Older joeys who are outside the pouch when their mothers are shot are likely to hop away into the darkness – commercial kangaroo shooters work at night – and starve to death.
We are also providing cash assistance to eligible poor families on the condition that pregnant mothers and children avail themselves of preventive health care, and that children regularly attend school.
The faces of the mothers and fathers say it all: vaccines prevent illness and save lives.
Add to that the opportunity that early school attendance provides to parents – and mothers, in particular – to work, and it should be no surprise that investment in early education brings major long-term economic and financial benefits.
Today, nearly three-quarters of two-year-olds are enrolled in preschool, giving their mothers the opportunity to work or study.
Mothers, young children, the elderly, and the disabled are among the most vulnerable to the pitfalls of undernourishment, and should be given special attention in efforts to end food insecurity and undernourishment.
I was reminded of that moment last month when I read Amy Chua’s Wall Street Journal article, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” which sparked more than 4,000 comments on wsj.com and over 100,000 comments on Facebook.
Chua’s thesis is that, when compared to Americans, Chinese children tend to be successful because they have “tiger mothers,” whereas Western mothers are pussycats, or worse.
Chinese mothers, according to Chua, believe that children, once they get past the toddler stage, need to be told, in no uncertain terms, when they have not met the high standards their parents expect of them.
(Chua says that she knows Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Irish, and Ghanaian mothers who are “Chinese” in their approach, as well as some ethnic-Chinese mothers who are not.)
Tigers lead solitary lives, except for mothers with their cubs.
So are elephants, and elephant mothers do not focus only on the well-being of their own offspring.
The consumption of veal has fallen sharply since it became widely known that to produce so-called “white” – actually pale pink – veal, newborn calves are separated from their mothers, deliberately made anemic, denied roughage, and kept in stalls so narrow that they cannot walk or turn around.
That does not mean more media coverage of the deformities associated with microcephaly or even of the difficulties faced by their mothers.
And while the coalition’s plan also promises higher contributions to the EU budget and more spending on the mothers’ pension and low-income households, it does not specify how those increases will be reconciled with a balanced budget.
Every day at dinner, mothers are left alone to answer when children ask if daddy still lives in the house.
But the unseen enemy has aroused concerns – particularly among mothers of young children – that are more a matter of psychology than of science.
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