{"id":4344,"date":"2006-10-18T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T12:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:33:20","slug":"enlightened_pol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4344","title":{"rendered":"Enlightened policies in France fuel mini baby boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">It&#8217;s only a mini-boom, but still pretty cool. Good article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/17\/AR2006101701652.html?referrer=email\">As Europe Grows Grayer, France Devises a Baby Boom &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>When Staub delivered twins last December &#8212; her third and fourth children &#8212; the nation not only increased their tax deductions and child allowances, the government-owned French train system offered 40 percent discounts off tickets for the parents and the children until they reach their 18th birthdays.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"238\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"10\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"228\">\n<div class=\"media_photo\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/technorati\/Technorati.js\"><\/script><script><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/17\/AR2006101701652_Technorati.js\"><\/script><script><\/script><link media=\"all\" href=\"http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/css\/bookmarking.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" \/>\n<div class=\"sidebarhack\"><strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"sidebar\">\n<h2>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"222\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"sb-left\" align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"sb-right\" align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/h2>\n<div class=\"sidebarcontent\">\n<div class=\"sidebarbox\">\n<div class=\"bookmark\"><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"CLEAR: both\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>&quot;The government favors families a lot,&quot; said Staub, 35, a project manager for a French cellphone company. &quot;They understand that families are the future. It&#8217;s great for us.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>While falling birthrates threaten to undermine economies and social stability across much of an aging Europe, French fertility rates are increasing. France now has the second-highest fertility rate in Europe &#8212; 1.94 children born per woman, exceeded slightly by Ireland&#8217;s rate of 1.99. The U.S. fertility rate is 2.01 children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only a mini-boom, but still pretty cool. Good article. As Europe Grows Grayer, France Devises a Baby Boom &#8211; washingtonpost.com When Staub delivered twins last December &#8212; her third and fourth children &#8212; the nation not only increased their tax deductions and child allowances, the government-owned French train system offered 40 percent discounts off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6358,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions\/6358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}