Source:
French American Foundation
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
13 Nov 2003
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Excerpts from the presentation:
- France provides all children, rich and poor, with a comprehensive system of education and care
- Pre-elementary schools for all children ages three to five, called ecoles meternelles
- Various forms of subsidized care for children under three, including licensed day care centres, called creches
- A public-private system of preventative health care for mother and child known as Protection Maternelle et Infantile (PMI)
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