Dutch women have fewer children due to financial cuts

Last Updated on Saturday, 07 January 2012 15:25 Saturday, 07 January 2012 15:24

Written by China Times

Due to the budget cut for child care, Dutch women are having fewer children than before. 

According to de Volkskrant, Dutch parents are not planning to have more children because the cost of child care keeps rising. In Norway where good child care is available, women have on average 0,5 to 0,7 more children than in the Netherlands. According to Melinda Mills, a scholar from Groningen, there is a correlation between the availability of good child care and the number of children people have.

In the discussion on child care, women’s participation of work normally plays a role but not the age at which they start to have children.