German initiatives appear to increase fertility rate
Posted in Europe on May 1st, 2008
This Spiegel Online article reports that Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen’s controversial policies of paying parents up to $2,810 for up to 12 months, increasing support for paternity leave and implementing a plan to triple the number of daycare places have worked: The fertility rate was 1.45 children per woman, up from 1.33 in [...]