Is it fair for the rest of the countries?

Barbara Fernandez
EAP2A
January 29, 2009

In this article, “Babies with benefits: France helps women to have more children”, Elizabeth Bryant explains the benefits that the government gives when women have children. She started telling the story of Ms. King about her decision to have children because of the incentives that she received. She also tells about the situation in France about this issue, the position that France has in the European Union, and the average of children in this country. She continues explaining some things related with these incentives, such as the different points of view that some people give about this benefit for women. Finally, Elizabeth Bryant mentions in her article countries such as Sweden, Spain or Italy, which are related with this issue: Babies with benefits.

In this country, France, it is easy for people to make the decision to have children because of the facilities and the incentives that the government gives. It could be fair or not for people depending on whether they live in this country or not. This kind of incentive could be focused in different ways, and it could be good or bad, depending on each person. Also, if a country has this kind of benefits it could have too much influence on the rest of the countries.

If you live in a country where the government gives this kind of benefits for women you will be happy, and maybe you will not care too much about what happens in the rest of the countries. People are not used to recognizing it, but when you have something in your life that others do not have, you do not give it the importance that you will give if you do not have it. In this case, the incentives that the government gives for women is a really good influence to have children, but not every woman in the world has this kind of facility, so that is why it could be fair or not depending on if you live or not in a country with these benefits. People could think that every woman deserves the same incentives, in spite of the country where they live.

The government of each country chose how to distribute their incentives among the population, and sometimes it could be good or bad depending on the influence that it has in your life. I think incentives which help women to have children are really important, first of all because some day I will be a mother, and because births are the greatest influence on the population’s growth. If the government helps women in that way, it is really good for some families, but on the other hand, there will be people who prefer that the incentives of the government focus on a different issue, because maybe they plan never to have children.

Related with the different countries, these incentives could also have an important influence on this issue. Immigration could be associated with that, because people could migrate to countries that have this kind of opportunity for women, and for the whole family.

In conclusion, incentives could have good or bad points of view depending on the person, the country where you live and also depending on the way that it affects your life.


Byant, E. (2008, August 10). Babies with benefits; France helps women to have more children. The Washington Times. Retrieved on January 22, 2009. From Lexis Nexis database.

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