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Best and Worst Countries To Be A Mother: U.S. Ranks Only #25
When State of the World’s Mothers 2012 was released by Save The Children this week, timed to commemorate Mother’s Day, the American media pounced on one point made in the 70-page report: The U.S. ranked #25 in a tally of which countries were the best and worst places for being a mom.
The criteria in the Mothers’ Index are all factors affecting the health, security, and well-being of mothers. The U.S. comes up alarmingly short in these key areas:
Best and Worst Countries To Be A Mother: U.S. Ranks Only #25
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What is alarming is the mortality rate for pregnant women and children under five. 25 is a rather dismal figure, but I am curious to know what agenda the study was trying to accomplish.
I wonder how Norway's nationalized health care system can be so superior when many Norwegians go to different countries for treatment due to the long waits for many procedures. If that is the case, it would seem that Norway's number one status is dubious.
Is this "study" just propaganda to support Universal Health care? I mean, come on: "Save The Children."
When State of the World’s Mothers 2012 was released by Save The Children this week, timed to commemorate Mother’s Day, the American media pounced on one point made in the 70-page report: The U.S. ranked #25 in a tally of which countries were the best and worst places for being a mom.
The criteria in the Mothers’ Index are all factors affecting the health, security, and well-being of mothers. The U.S. comes up alarmingly short in these key areas:
- Risk of maternal mortality. With a 1 in 2,100 risk of maternal death — meaning the lifetime chance of death from some cause related to pregnancy or having children — the U.S. has the highest risk of any industrialized nation. A woman in the U.S. is more than 7 times as likely as a mom from Ireland or Italy to die from a pregnancy-related cause.
- Under-5 mortality. The U.S. rate for losing a child under the age of five is 8 per 1,000 births, which puts us on a par with Qatar, Slovakia, and Montenegro. Forty nations rate better than we do.
- Maternity leave. According to the report, we have the least generous maternity leave policy of any wealthy nation, and we’re the only developed country that does not guarantee paid leave for working mothers. Only a handful of all countries in the world do not guarantee the right.
- Preschool enrollment and the political status of women also hurt our ranking. In both areas, the report places the United States in the bottom 10 among developed countries.
Best and Worst Countries To Be A Mother: U.S. Ranks Only #25
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What is alarming is the mortality rate for pregnant women and children under five. 25 is a rather dismal figure, but I am curious to know what agenda the study was trying to accomplish.
I wonder how Norway's nationalized health care system can be so superior when many Norwegians go to different countries for treatment due to the long waits for many procedures. If that is the case, it would seem that Norway's number one status is dubious.
Is this "study" just propaganda to support Universal Health care? I mean, come on: "Save The Children."