For somebody from Holland it's hard to understand how any family being that poor in a country like France with all it's socialism and union rights can be a thin

For somebody from Holland it's hard to understand how any family being that poor in a country like France with all it's socialism and union rights can be a thing. We count as quite capitalistic compared to France but just for having children alone you get a compensation that already puts you out of that territory. (Of course we don't take this compensation away for working parents -- everybody always gets its. And from the age of 16 it's actually deposited in the account of the child itself) And that's not even our (dressed down) welfare system: this is just making sure kids in school grow up in a somewhat egalitarian way. This has to be an exaggeration. Nobody is that poor in France, right?