FRANCE'S FAMILY CODE

Grey River Argus, 21 September 1939, Page 8

FRANCE'S FAMILY CODE

| France’s persistent anxiety with regard to her declining birth rate has I now given rise to a "Family Code” notes the Spectator. Its main puri poses are to stimulate child-bearing and to encourage a return to the land, which may also have some effect on the birth rale—since this tends to fall in urban conditions. Even from the point of view of her own internal stability, France’s anxiety is easily inItelligible; 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 for al! Frenchmen with a capital bonus for the 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 alreadyexisted for some years in France.