France Pro Natalist Country

Question 1

Pro Natalist Policy definition

Answer 1

A policy which aims to encourage more births through the use of incentives.

Question 2

3 concerns of a decline in fertility and increase in life length

Answer 2

A decrease in the supply of labour.
The socioeconomic implications of population ageing.
The long term prospect of population decline and demise

Question 3

What did the pro natalist methods in the policy include?

Answer 3

Offering cash incentives to mothers who stayed at home to care for children.
Subsidising holidays.
Banning the sale of contraceptives (repealed in 1967).

Question 4

What were some of the incentives of the policy?

Answer 4

Payment of up to £1064 to couples having their third child
Maternity leave on near full pay for 20 weeks for the first child to 40 weeks or more for the third child.
30% fare reduction on all public transport for three child families.

Question 5

Context of France’s pro natalist policy

Answer 5

In 1939, the French passed the “Code de la famille”, a complex piece of pro natalist legislation.