Impacts+of+unsuccessful+policies

The impacts if the pro-natalist policies are not successful:

 * Generous family policy program cannot guarantee a high fertility level
 * Sweden => good example
 * Sweden's family policies have been as generous as Norway's, but no improvements in birthrate
 * Insecurity of economy declines fertility, as couples postpone having children
 * example: Sweden experienced a period of slack in the economy that soon led to a sharp rise in unemployment. Soon after, fertility declined from 2.1 children per woman in 1992 to about 1.5 in 1997.
 * Policies should be fair to women until parental leave must be shared 50-50 between mother and father, by law.
 * Women will then be completely equal in the work market, and perhaps choose to have even more children
 * Replacement rate of 2.1 will not be met
 * Economy will fall further, because the number of consumers and skilled workers that keep the money flowing declines (which then further discourages families to have babies... a cycle)
 * In MEDCs, the reduction of competitive advantage in science and technology, as there are less scientists who will research and refine those new technologies
 * Emergence of villages where schools close due to the lack of children enrolled in it (as in the Japanese town in "Population Paradox")
 * Experience of lack of security in providing pensions for an aging population as well as the working population who has to pay more taxes to support the increasing aging population

Resources: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4837422.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4786160.stm GAIA p.358 The film, "Population Paradox"