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Motion for a resolution | Doc. 13894 | 30 September 2015
Ongoing maternal care for children
The Parliamentary Assembly supports the rights and opportunities of mothers within Council of Europe member States to work, as it also does the right of children to ongoing maternal care.
In seeking to encourage both these purposes, it therefore advocates revised measures:
- providing financial assistance for maternal care in the home for a minimum of three years;
- ensuring that such care subsidy is independent of paid work;
- taking into account studies which conclude that there is a correlation between early direct maternal care and adult stability;
- recognising the results of such studies which show that the child benefits best from home care provided by mothers, fathers, grandparents and close family members rather than from that available in children’s’ day centres;
thus enhancing social cohesion within the communities of Council of Europe member States.