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While I second mrottenkolber that your guess is highly stereotypical, the intention of the polish state introducing their "500+" program seems to be exactly tha
by schlowmo 10y ago
While I second mrottenkolber that your guess is highly stereotypical, the intention of the polish state introducing their "500+" program seems to be exactly that: increasing the birth rate.
- mrottenkolber 10y agoDo you have a source on that, or do you think lawmakers might also be concerned with the well being of children, mums, dads, single parents, young parents–no matter how many children/parents there are?
- schlowmo 10y agoThere are various (english) news articles (for example [0][1]) and also a paper for the European commision [2] (so called ESPN Flash Report) claiming that. But besides those sources there is also the fact that the child-raising benefits are only unconditional from the second child on, for the first child there is a maximum monthly income to get it.[2] If the main goal was the well being part, then this would not make much sense. [0] http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/250612,Poland-pays-out-millions-in-bid-to-raise-birth-rate http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/250612,Poland-pays-out-mil... [1] http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/02/11/poland-approves-monthly-benefit-for-families-to-bolster-low-birth-rates/ http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/02/11/poland... [2] http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=16077&langId=en http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=16077&langId=en [PDF]