Military Mom’s Stressed and in Need of Help.
Posted by Catherine Morgan on May 13, 2007
Military Mom’s Stressed and in Need of Help
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mothers in the U.S. military are stressed, poorly paid and need more help caring for their children, according to a report issued by Congress on Friday.
Nearly half of all women in the active-duty military have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and 24,475 women are there now, the report by the Joint Economic Committee said.
Yet child care services are not keeping up with longer and more frequent deployments, said the report, released to coincide with Mothers’ Day in the United States on Sunday.
Moreover, women get only 6 weeks of leave after the birth of a child, it found. — read full article
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