Subject:- Work conditions
I believe Hungary has similar laws to Czech & Slovakia regarding very long
maternity leave. Some women I met there over the years would be off for many
years on ? 60% salary as they had more than one child and the additional
maternity leave was added on as each child was born. My abiding memory was
catching a bus at 04.30 [!!!!!!] and everyone on the bus drooling over my 10
month-old daughter & of course my husband & I were given a double seat, in
other countries people would just ignore a couple & their baby at that
ungodly hour !!! 
Clare Kedves.

Date:    Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:44:43 +0200
From:    Wendy Blumfield <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: work conditions

The report of the conversation with the abusive works manager is truly
horrifying.

But It is important to connect all the issues concerning breastfeeding and
societies` attitudes to mothers/babies.
Recent studies showed that the UK and the USA were bottom of the list for
children`s happiness and wellbeing.  For such developed wealthy countries
this is incomprehensible.
Scandinavia and Holland were top.
Has anyone made the connection that in Holland and Scandinavia, paid
maternity leave stretches into years not months with options for the dads to
share, while the UK allows three months and the USA a mere six weeks.
Extended maternity leave encourages prolonged periods of breastfeeding and
reduces the risk of leaving young children with abusive child-minders.
A client of mine comes from Czechoslovakia and says that there women can
take 4 years maternity leave.  I do not know how this relatively poorer
country provides in other ways for its children.
Is anyone familiar with Czech family laws?

Wendy Blumfield
NCT ANT Tutor/BFC
Israel Childbirth Education Centre

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