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Old 2012-12-16, 20:55   Link #2634
sneaker
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Originally Posted by KiraYamatoFan View Post
Point number 1: I don't think we'll have a choice there. Something radical has to be made and the system has to be changed in order to support new parents. Daycares near or within working places is not something new and it's usually something very welcome for all workers within a company. If we push social policies further: the Swedes managed to create a system in the 1970s in which parental leave can be extended to a maximum of 16 months, paid to 80% of the salary lost in that time and it favours both men and women to take their share of responsibilities as parents. I keep on saying that family policies should be inspired by what is done in Scandinavia where they were confronted with ageing populations once.
Sweden does not even have enough of a birth rate to sustain their population if it wasn't for massive immigration. Germany has all kind of benefits for parents, mothers can take three years off per child and get their jobs back by law and still its birth rate is as low as that of Japan.
And getting massive influx of immigrants that are good for society is not easy to pull off, especially if the country's language does not happen to be the world language. You could of course open the borders for Turkey, Africa and the Middle-East like Europe does(in practice, not theoretically), but that does create more problems than it solves.

Last edited by sneaker; 2012-12-16 at 22:28.
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