This video accompanies the latest news State of the World's Mothers Report 2008 presented by Save The Children, which analyzes 146 countries from all over the world in relation to the conditions for motherhood and the survival of children.
After the ninth place in which Spain was located in the 2006 Report, and in the 2007, the country has declined in the welfare of mothers and children, becoming number 12. Ireland, Germany and France are the 3 countries that have passed in front of Spain in this list since it has been considered that the sanitary and social conditions To have children they are better.
The video images point to some reasons. It has much to do with it some deficiencies that we find in Spain and that we have been pointing out from Babies and more on many occasions, such as the smallest and insufficient length of maternity leave, suspense in work and family conciliation…
Also the differences in the salary between men and women or the scarce economic aid cause that the age at which a woman decides to be a mother is delayed increasingly, with the consequent risk of premature births and medical complications for babies to get ahead.
The countries that improve Spain in all this are, in order, Sweden (with enviable permit conditions), Norway, Iceland (we also talk about their "good life"), New Zealand, Denmark, Australia, Finland, Ireland, Germany , France and the Netherlands (in addition, in Holland there are the happiest children).
Despite all this, which must be fought to improve, we can say that we are in a sweet situation if we compare ourselves with other countries.
The saddest data goes to the Sub-Saharan Africa: in Niger, the worst situated country, 1 in 4 children dies before their fifth birthday. With these figures, it is logical that women take risks so that their children are born in other worlds. Maternal mortality is also very high in less developed countries, which confines these countries to the lowest positions in the list.
