La politique familiale allemande : les limites de l'action de l'État

Understanding the long term effects of family policies on fertility: The diffusion of different family models in France and Germany

“…Consequently, all successive German governments limited their intervention into family affairs as much as possible and tended to favour exclusive child care by mothers. Another reason for this choice is the influence of the church on politics in Germany, at least until the 1980s (Fagnani 1992;Pinl 2003;Salles 2006).…”

Family policies, norms about gender roles and fertility decisions in France and Germany

“…On the other hand, Germany prefers to offer a financial support to families with children based on the traditional family model (Le Goff 2002;Salles 2006). Western German family policy, until quite recently, did not finance collective child care, obliging most mothers to stop working at the birth of a child, and then later to work shorter hours (Fagnani 1992;Périvier 2004;Salles 2006). In western Germany in 2009, public child care covered only 5.1% of children under three years of age (i.e.…”