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# When a Culture Stops Doing What Comes Naturally . . .
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2447/
- Published: 2005-09-23T16:38:11.000Z
- Updated: 2005-09-23T16:38:11.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Family, #wpChunk

. . . it pays:

> Middle-class mothers in France could be paid up to €1,000 (£675) a month - almost the minimum wage - to stop work for a year and have a third child under a government scheme to boost the birthrate, already among the highest in Europe.

> Despite female employment statistics that are the envy of the continent, the government remains worried about the reluctance of better-educated women to have babies. A plan to be unveiled by the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, today is expected to double an existing cash incentive for big families.

[Link](http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1575401,00.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). (Thanks, *[Open Book](http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*)

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(Note: "Natural" doesn't mean "primitive," so please don't think the above statement endorses animalistic bedding habits, raw violence, or Mike Tyson.)