[johnnymorgan]

Both parents have to work, if you want to increase birth rates then you can't force everyone to be a dual income family.

You'll notice that all the high birth rates are with single income family structures.

[paddim8]

In Sweden you get 480 days of parental leave and heavily subsidized daycare. Both parents can have jobs without issues

[thsksbd]

So a year and a half. Every large family I know ( and I know very many, very large families) are single income or the mom works at the school.

[johnnymorgan]

He didn't even make a point, just gave us a fact about their social support programs.

Clearly paternal leave doesn't fix the core problem since it's been there, and grown, over the entire time the birth rate has fallen.

It doesn't even make sense to do it unless both parents have exceptional careers, and most people just have mundane jobs.

[WD40forRust]

Not good enough. It is not for daycare and The State to raise your children while you're echoing poetically down the halls of Coincidence Inc...