France’s birth rate fell by seven per cent last year to 1.8 children per woman - its lowest level since the end of the Second World War. However, it still has the highest birth rate in Europe.

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Moldova, Croatia and Montenegro are the 10 European countries ...

Between the lines: Though child care support — subsidies for parents or universal policies, as in France — has been shown to ...