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Mr President, I am a woman who was brought up in Poland, where Christian values are universally recognised. I can assure the House that I have never been discriminated against in the home, at school, in higher education or at work. Sadly though, women are in danger of being discriminated against as a result of European Union policies. I cannot therefore understand the concern expressed by the author of the report on equality between women and men in the European Union at the fact that the employment rate for women aged between 15 and 24 has not increased. That is the time when young women ought to be in education or perhaps starting families.
2007 has been designated ‘European Year of Equal opportunities for All’. With this in mind, I would like to call for equal opportunities for children too. Children should at least be able to enjoy the same opportunity as we had to bond with our mothers. Children must not be separated from their mothers soon after birth by sending the mother off to work and the children to a childcare centre. From a medical point of view, plans to grant maternity leave to men instead of to women seem rather odd. After all, women really need that time to recover from the birth. For babies, it is a period of adjustment to life outside the womb.
It is particularly important that the first few months of life are spent in close proximity to a loving mother, whose care is vital to the proper development of newborns babies and toddlers. Rather than granting time off to fathers, it would be more appropriate to increase family benefits and to recognise the time spent bringing up children when calculating pension entitlements. Men do not have a maternal instinct and their sense of paternal responsibility develops rather later. Once again, I appeal for responsibility, for women to be treated with dignity and respect, and for children not to be subjected to social experiments."@en1
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