{"id":4638,"date":"2005-07-31T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T08:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/les-enfants-du-paradis.html"},"modified":"2005-07-31T08:30:17","modified_gmt":"2005-07-31T08:30:17","slug":"les-enfants-du-paradis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/les-enfants-du-paradis.html","title":{"rendered":"Les Enfants du Paradis"},"content":{"rendered":"

French women are having babies…<\/a><\/p>\n

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The result is that more than in any other European country, French families now have three or more children. Germany and Switzerland also give generous family benefits, and in Sweden 77 percent of the children under 6 are in cr\u00e8ches, but birth rates stay well under that in France. <\/p>\n

While the birthrate of immigrants in Europe is nearly everywhere higher than for women of nonimmigrant origin, the French phenomenon of enlarging families is particularly noticeable in the middle and professional classes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French women are having babies… The result is that more than in any other European country, French families now have three or more children. Germany and Switzerland also give generous family benefits, and in Sweden 77 percent of the children under 6 are in cr\u00e8ches, but birth rates stay well under that in France. 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