{"id":26967,"date":"2014-05-18T11:31:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T09:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/?p=26967\/"},"modified":"2018-07-12T17:39:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T15:39:39","slug":"another-family-policy-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/en\/another-family-policy-is-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping families differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Every year, the French government changes its policy towards families while avoiding a necessary debate on the principles underlying it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The multiple state subsidies granted to families are questionable. It\u2019s especially true for a special tax privilege called \u00ab\u00a0household quotient\u00a0\u00bb which benefits wealthy families at the expense of less well-off families.<\/p>\n<h3>Family allowances and birth rate.<\/h3>\n<p>Another oddity of our system is that subsidies go up for the third child, as if a parents\u2019 choices for a third child would be made based purely on financial incentives.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Rather than constantly changing the family policy, it would be more useful to question its legitimacy.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The correlation between family allowances and birth rates have already been refuted by many researchers. The French system maintains very low levels of support for middle-class families with a single child, contrary to what most other countries do.<\/p>\n<h3>For a single allowance per child<\/h3>\n<p>We want to reverse the current logic of this system. Instead of financing the family with the aim of maintaining its pre-birth standard of living, the child should get financial help via its parents to guarantee for him a minimum level of education.<\/p>\n<p>We suggest to introduce a single allowance per child, defined according to the needs of the child rather than the standard of living of the family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the government arbitrates on the terms of our family policy, while avoiding real debate, however necessary, on the principles underlying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":26420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationlibre.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}