Dupouy, a 28-year-old lawyer, got almost five months paid maternity leave from her company for the birth. She can take another seven months off beyond that -- a year total -- unpaid, if she wants, with her job guaranteed under French law.
When her son Louis was born, healthy and by way of a normal delivery, she got to stay in her local French hospital, around the corner from where she lives, for five full days, to rest.
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One of the reasons France keeps winning the ranking is its world-class health care system, which Dupouy just experienced first-hand.
"They treat expecting mums like treasures here," Dupouy told CNN from her Paris apartment. "They take really good care of you. The health care system is just amazing." She said she wouldn't have gotten the same maternity leave -- or care -- back home in Australia. Full story...
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Nothing is free. It must be paid for by taking it from others who otherwise would be able to select how to spend what they produce, not government taking it from them. This is not Heaven. This is a tyrannic Hell.
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