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To: .cnI redruM
Other developed countries facing these dilemmas have turned towards measures designed to increase national fertility. So far, the results have not been particularly encouraging, and the reasons are puzzling.

The Japanese, who have been struggling with a declining workforce for several years, have offered financial incentives for families to have children, but to virtually no effect.

France, on the other hand, seems to have had some modest success. Its fertility rate is below replacement, but is closer to it than Germany and Italy. French parents receive relatively generous child allowances, varying with the number of children in a family, but worth several thousand dollars a year. They get about $300 per month for a second child and about $410 per month for each child after that plus other substantial subsidies totalling, for a family of three young children, close to $20,000 per annum.

Who'd a thunk that people would be getting paid to get laid, by the gubbmint no less?

18 posted on 01/28/2004 7:18:27 PM PST by Polycarp IV (PRO-LIFE orthodox Catholic--without exception, without compromise, without apology. Any questions?)
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To: CAtholic Family Association
I'd plant my seed for some good old fashioned green.
28 posted on 01/28/2004 8:52:17 PM PST by .cnI redruM (Vae victis! - [woe to the vanquished].)
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To: CAtholic Family Association
Japan is slowly asphixiating itself. it's above 60 population is more htan 10% and rising. It's population is supposed to Half by 2050 (along with Russia). It won't accept immigration. Japan and Russia will be consigned to the past in another 50 years while China would move into Siberia, probably taking over much of what is now Asian Russia.
34 posted on 01/29/2004 3:46:52 AM PST by Cronos (W2004!)
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