Cash incentives to have a third child
On Thursday the French prime minister Dominique de Villepin announced that French women are to be offered cash incentives of up to 1000 euros per month to have a third child. This move is intended to encourage professional couples to have more children amid growing concerns at the reduced birth rate among the middle-classes.
So why is France - a country with the second-highest national birthrate in Europe - so desperate to encourage women to have bigger families? And what are the social implications behind encouraging the middle-classes to reproduce?
We hear the reactions to these proposals from French women themselves and Benedicte Paviot, French correspondent in London talks to Martha about the issues.
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