Do you remember the one that messed up at the beginning of the year when Carolina Bescansa attended the congress with her baby? The society was divided between those who thought it was great, those who saw that it was a very valid claim for a conciliation that in Spain is to have a laugh, and those who considered it a provocation or a way of giving the note.
Whatever the opinion of each one, I believe that we all agree in affirming that reconciling the family with work, in Spain, is an impossible mission. Not only are we the European country with the least help for families, but we are also aging as a population at times, so that we will hardly have anyone to pay us pensions when our retirement arrives.
The fact is that there are countries that seem to take us years of advantage, at least in respect for children, for maternity, for babies and their needs, and a good example of this is the situation experienced four days ago in the Icelandic Parliament when a legislator was called to intervene and did breastfeeding her baby. The most curious thing (or maybe not so much and the funny thing is really ours) is that nobody seemed to care.
I didn't expect to be called to intervene
As we read in the Washington Post, the legislator Unnur Bra Konradsdottir She was sitting in Parliament breastfeeding her six-week-old daughter, when she was unexpectedly called to respond in a debate about a bill she had presented some time ago.
At that time he saw himself in the dilemma of what to do, whether to separate the baby to go to the lectern without her, at the risk of crying, or simply continue with what she was doing, continue breastfeeding her baby while she was intervening and allowing that so that the session continued.
Before his fellow legislators and in front of the cameras, Konradsdottir approached the lectern and intervened without seeing gestures of strangeness, disapproval or calling her to order or nonsense so in other countries we are very given to do.
When some journalists asked him about it, he said the following:
She was hungry and I didn't expect to go to the pulpit. It's like any job: you have to do what you have to do. Actually, it is the most natural thing in the world (…) either I had to separate the girl from the chest and let her stay crying next to my partner next door or I could just take her with me, and I thought it was going to cause less discomfort Take her with me
When the news is that he breastfed
The baby is Konradsdottir's third child and was born on September 1. Since then he has come to Parliament with her on numerous occasions, so his colleagues and colleagues are more than used to his presence, and It has not been news so far, because she is also a very calm baby.
By this I mean that the news is that she came to intervene in the pulpit breastfeeding and not that she takes it to work, or rather, the news is that she went out to talk breastfeeding and nobody has insulted her: nobody has said that what he does is postureo, nobody has told him that he could have taken out the milk or that he could give him artificial milk and nobody has said that who he should be with is with the father or grandmother (Let's accept it: Spain is different, For better and for worse).
And it is that neither she, nor Bescansa, nor all the women who take their children to work are saying that women have to go to work with their babies. The action is confused with the trial, as if they were saying that those who do not are worse mothers or do not love their children. They are only saying that those who want, or can, or consider it appropriate, they should be able to do it. And even more, they are saying, to this world created by middle-aged white men and for middle-aged white men, that everyone who does not marry that description (older people, men who are not white, women, forgets) children and babies), which Many women would like to be able to take care of their babies, and yet they can't do it..
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