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You are saying that a woman who does not breast feed is a bad mother with bad consequences for her children.

Ehm... what? I have never said that, please do not judge too quickly, that way leads to wrong conclusions. I merely stated that each decision leads to different consequences. There are ...

The Finnish way is that it is better for a child to be part of a larger group of children early.


That's fine, but I have met two Finnish women and men and one lady who I know well personally (she is Finnish and has Finnish parents and Finnish husband and he has Finnish parents). And the first ...

The option to offer one year of maternity leave plus one year of paternity leave is a nice one, indeed. Well, maybe I have asked for too much, maybe 18 months would suffice... (9 + 9 or 12 for mother + 6 for father).

The issue with non-working parents, Somali or not: what stops them from no doing ...

Hello,

First of all, apologies if the topic has been already created, though I have not found it easily just yet.

Anyway, when a baby is born in Finland, then a parent (typically, the mother) gets the child allowance for the period when the baby is 8 months old. Please, correct me if the figures ...