Finland: A culture that values work over babies will have too few babies

Published January 29, 2024 3:10pm ET



Not too long ago, Finland was the model for how a wealthy, egalitarian culture could be pro-family and thus have a lot of babies.

“Finnish baby boxes” were held up as a synecdoche of how a social democracy supports mothers and thus gets a higher birthrate.

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