Word: pronatalist
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...though this perhaps goes without saying - not an unpleasant one, either. In Germany, Spain and Italy pronatalist policies were associated with fascism. Not in France, where the state has favored childbearing by putting an infrastructure in place that encourages women to work and have babies: municipal child-care facilities, liberal family allowances that rise with each subsequent child, and a nonjudgmental attitude about having babies out of wedlock. France banned the term illegitimate from its administrative lexicon in 2005, and last year's baby boom came amid a continuing drop in marriage rates. Almost half of 2006 babies were born...
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