Women will give a bribe for breastfeeding

Thousands of young mothers will receive money from the health authorities in the case agree to feed their children feeding. So an original way the authorities want even more to promote breastfeeding in the country.

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Fund of compulsory medical Insurance England is going to issue 4000 new mothers up to 200 pounds grocery vouchers, if they agree breast-feed   their children. Preliminary experiments showed that agrees to these conditions, every second young mother and two thirds who participated in the program fed their babies up to 6 weeks.

Now, researchers are going to spread the practice of this controversial experiment more the number of women. Initially, young mothers will receive vouchers for 120 pounds if they agree breast-feed baby 6 weeks. However, if a woman decide to extend the breast feeding   up to 6 months, value of the voucher will grow up to 200 pounds. Health experts We hope that this scheme will help to raise the still relatively low level breastfeeding   in some parts of the United Kingdom.

but Last year the scheme sufficiently seriously criticized by its opponents, naming policy funding for breastfeeding bribes create a dangerous precedent and unworthy for the country's authorities. In this scheme agreed to enter several major retailers including Argos, Debenhams and Poundstretcher, as well as supermarkets Tesco, Asda and Morrisons, which agreed to provide their products for vouchers. As the experiment showed, Young mothers spend these vouchers to buy food, diapers, children's clothing and toys. (READ MORE)

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