U.S. Not the Best Country for Moms to Live In, Based on Infant Mortality & Maternal Death Rates

Being a first world country does not make the United States the best place for mothers to live in. According to Parenting.com, Save the Children's "State of the World's Mothers 2015: An Urban Disadvantage" report cited that the country went down two notches from the 31st to the 33rd place in 2014 as the best place for moms. 

Researchers took these factors, namely, education opportunities, economic conditions, and governmental career opportunities for women, into consideration before finalizing findings in the said report.

To clarify the findings, the report stated that "in some United States cities, urban child survival gaps between rich and poor are greater than those found in developing countries."

The report did indicate the demographics of mothers in disadvantage the most in America. It stated, "In many U.S. cities, poor, unmarried and young African-American mothers are losing their babies at much higher rates than the U.S. average."

U.S. mothers who lose their lives in childbirth and due to pregnancy associated mortality causes reportedly stand in 1 out of 1,800, according to the report. This statistic denotes the U.S. as 10 times a worse country for moms to live in as compared to Belarus. Approximately 7 out of 1,000 kids in America pass away even before they celebrate their fifth birthdays, the report found.

Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. were rated as the top American cities for mothers. According to the report, 6.6 infant deaths out of 1,000 live births prevail in America's capital.

The major lifestyle differences between the rich and the poor in Washington, D.C. accounted for the city's poor child survival, as indicated on the same report via RT.com. The report said, "Babies in Ward 8, where over half of all children live in poverty, are about 10 times as likely as babies in Ward 3, the richest part of the city, to die before their first birthday."

Meanwhile, Monday's "Save the Children" report cited Norway as the number one place that caters best to mother's needs, according to Yahoo! News.

Carolyn Miles, the CEO of "Save the Children," cited reasons behind such findings on Norway's amenability for mothers to thrive for parenting. She said, "They [Norwegians] do have wealth, but they also invest that wealth in things like mothers and children, as a very high priority."

The annual 16th Mothers Index conducted by "Save the Children" assessed quality of maternal lives in 46 developed countries and 133 developing ones, RT.com reported.