Interesting stuff. What do you think about the 'reduced parenting intensity' argument for higher French birth rates? E.g. this Economist article claims that French parents spend less time with their children than in comparable countries, and that mothers actually spend less time parenting than they did 50 years ago, whereas in all other countries surveyed mothers and fathers spend much more than they used to. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-now-spend-twice-as-much-time-with-their-children-as-50-years-ago
I've always been slightly skeptical of this data given how extreme the divergence is, and some of the individual country data (e.g. Denmark) seems very suspicious. But if it is true it would make sense that if parenting were less all consuming, it would lead to people having more children.
I have also heard that some of the individual country data seems prima facie unreliable! Nevertheless, idea of a less resource intensive parenting culture in France is most interesting – I will be looking into it, thank you for the prompt!
Interesting stuff. What do you think about the 'reduced parenting intensity' argument for higher French birth rates? E.g. this Economist article claims that French parents spend less time with their children than in comparable countries, and that mothers actually spend less time parenting than they did 50 years ago, whereas in all other countries surveyed mothers and fathers spend much more than they used to. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-now-spend-twice-as-much-time-with-their-children-as-50-years-ago
I've always been slightly skeptical of this data given how extreme the divergence is, and some of the individual country data (e.g. Denmark) seems very suspicious. But if it is true it would make sense that if parenting were less all consuming, it would lead to people having more children.
I have also heard that some of the individual country data seems prima facie unreliable! Nevertheless, idea of a less resource intensive parenting culture in France is most interesting – I will be looking into it, thank you for the prompt!