Countries that invest in to make it easier to have and children tend to have higher fertility rates than those that don't. The examples are France and Sweden.
France has always had a strong family . Women their first child get a paid and job-protected maternity of 16 weeks as well as a palette of to help out with everything from education to housing and transportation; the increase steeply for the third child. Partly as a result of like these, France had a net natural in population last year of 211,000, while the E.U. as a only had a net natural of 200,000, not including .
Mothers in Sweden can take 15 months work, most of it at 80% , to for the baby.Fathers can stay home one day a week to help . They too get 80% from the state for the day spent with their children. Parents can look to increasing child - from €105 per month for the first child to €190 for No. 4. For a mother it also to know that her job will be waiting for her when she returns to the .She is not against because she children.
Europe, women say they would like to have more children than they do. One way to make that possible is to that the goals of and parenthood are . That seems to have been in places like Sweden, where women's in the labor force is high and so is fertility. It's an expensive - critics might call it a parenthood - since the government pays for maternity and leave, health care and education benefits. And it's a level of social some say Europe can no longer . But the alternative - too few young people to take of the old - may be even costlier.