The discussion about the mother on active duty who is to be 'deployed' for
three months makes me realize what a different world it is when children
have the right to be with their mothers.  I just don't think many of my
acquaintances here would believe me if I tried to tell them that female US
military personnel may be deployed for extended periods of time when their
children are under 3 years old.  (That's right, 3 YEARS, not months.)  Most
Scandinavians would quite simply be unable to comprehend that it is possible
for the government of an industrialized nation - and our major military
ally - to send a breastfeeding mother of a young infant to another continent
without sending the infant along too.
We have a young woman as our minister of defense at the moment.  She is
being seriously talked about in some circles as a possible candidate for
leader of NATO when the current leader completes his term.  Maybe this would
be something she could take up - equal maternity rights for all female
military personnel in the entire alliance.
Sigh.
Rachel Myr (for the record, ex-patriate US citizen)
Kristiansand, Norway

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