The interesting thing is that introducing this 14 month of total parental leave (at 67% of your net salary or net income for self-employed parents) in 2008 fail

The interesting thing is that introducing this 14 month of total parental leave (at 67% of your net salary or net income for self-employed parents) in 2008 failed to improve Germany's abysmal fertility rate (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php?title=File:Total_fertility_rate,_1960-2011_%28live_births_per_woman%29.png&filetimestamp=20130129121040 http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....). We are still stuck at ~1.38 children/woman. So while Norway is doing something right, it's not just parental leave. Furthermore, they seem to be far from having a sustainable fertility rate at 1.88 children/woman. Ireland and Iceland are doing better. France too, but most likely this is due to a heavy influx of young Muslims from North Africa.