THE "COMPULSORY" FAMILY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 13, 16 September 1913, Page 4

THE "COMPULSORY" FAMILY.

According to Dr Jacques Hortillion,lhe statistical expert, there are in I'ranee at the present time 1,330,000 celihaas, 1.800,000 families without children, 2,030,000 families with two children, and 2,100,000 families with only one child. The. Government’s proi i n j J i lin f rtf Oiul

posal, therefore, to tax celibates ami childless couples, promises, if earned into effect, to be a welcome addition to the revenue of a State groaning under the burden of militarism. U is proposed to fix the “compulsory” family at three children and to tax every citizen who has reached the age

of forty-five without having three children living, or who reached the a( rc of twenty-one. The tax named, is equal to about twenty-five shillings per child falling short of the minimum of three, and it is calculated would yield twenty millions sterling annually to the State.