FRANCE’S FAMILY CODE
INCREASING THE BIRTH-RATE. France's persistent anxiety with regard to her declining birth-rate has now given rise to a “Family Code,” notes the “Spectator.” Its main purposes are to stimulate child-bearing and to encourage a return to the land, which may also have some effect on the birth-rate—since this tends to fall in urban conditions. Even from the point of view of her own internal stability, France’s anxiety is easily intelligible; since 1935 the death rate has) exceeded the birth-rate. It is even more easily understood since, this year, the population of the Greater Reich has risen to 86,000,000, as compared with France’s 42,000,000. The Code provides for family allowances with first child, marriage allowances, with special advantages for all who contract to stay on the land for a period of years, and taxes on bachelors and childless couples. These measures.extend the system of family allowances which has already existed for some years in France.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 2
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157FRANCE’S FAMILY CODE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 2
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