Based on health, education, infant mortality, maternal mortality, economic well-being, and average maternity leave (among other factors), the organization Save the Children determined that the best place to be a mother in 2011 is Norway; the worst, Afghanistan.
The United States comes in at No. 31 — in part because we have a 1 in 2,100 maternal mortality rate, "the highest of any industrialized nation," and the "least generous maternity leave policy — both in terms of duration and percent of wages paid — of any wealthy nation.
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