Get paid to have babies :)

[cmotherofpirl]

Polish Town Offers Newlyweds Checks For Babies
Couples Have Two Years To Get $570

POSTED: 12:57 pm EDT October 14, 2004

WARSAW, Poland -- Have a baby and get a check.

That's the deal officials in a southern Polish county are offering newlyweds.

Couples can get about $570 for having children within two years of their marriage.

The leader of the county council is alarmed by what he calls a frightening decline in the birthrate.

In the region where the baby bonus is being offered, funerals outnumbered births by 2-1 last year. Officials are also offering couples free use of a hall for their wedding receptions.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

It's sad that we've had to resort to this...

[StMichael]

Italy needs to do this as well.

Population has been dropping in the past 10 years there leaving churches and schools empty.

[franciscanheart]

they can do that??!!

[BurkeFan]

Hey, it's better than China's policy of killing the second child.

[azaelia]

Oooh. I think I'll move to Poland...

[Paladin D]

[quote name='StMichael' date='Oct 14 2004, 06:43 PM'] Italy needs to do this as well.

Population has been dropping in the past 10 years there leaving churches and schools empty. [/quote]
Italy does have something like this.

[Paladin D]

[quote name='azaelia' date='Oct 14 2004, 07:42 PM'] Oooh. I think I'll move to Poland... [/quote]
Let's get married and move to Poland... [b]together[/b].

LOL sorry had to do it.

I'm Polish/Italian, but [b]mostly[/b] Polish.

[Paladin D]

GAH TRIPLE POST!

[Iacobus]

Awww this is kinda sad. I knew ZPG is big in Europe but I never thought that the population was decline. But I should have been able to tell, the avg fertiliy in MDCs (Baiscly, members of the EU, US, Canada, Japan, and maybe S. Korea) is 2.1, but the number of births per woman is only 1.9...

[LSW]

Interesting. I wonder where specificaly in southern Poland this is? I was born in the Silesian region in Poland which is in the south but I doubt that they are having problems with the birthrate.

[immaculata]

lol.. i can see it now.. a bunch of rich catholics..

[IcePrincessKRS]

Thats really sad.

...but kind of funny at the same time... If I lived there I could have had 2 checks by my second anniversary. :haha: er, unless you actually have to have given birth in the first two years... hmmm....

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='StMichael' date='Oct 14 2004, 05:43 PM']Italy needs to do this as well.

Population has been dropping in the past 10 years there leaving churches and schools empty.
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I know.

I can remember when I was in Italy staying in this town with this really nice family and they had one son.. Actually more or less every family had one kid.. The way he treated me made me think that he was deeply sad about not having any siblings. And it was heart-breaking to see the signs of a once booming community with the parish and the school attached, as well as the school yard, which all seemed baren because of the scarcity of children. I could imagine it at is once was. Now the pews are mostly empty, the school is mostly unused space.. It was really sad.

I remember feeling audacious one evening and actually flat out asking a lady if she felt conflict in professing Catholicism and yet contracepting (she had mentioned her contraceptive practices before hand so I figured it was an open topic). She said that she goes by what "Don Lorenzo" says; this was the street clothes clad parish priest. And I mean he said Mass in street clothes.


My experience in Italy was so varied. Lots of extremes and contrasts. For example I can remember walking out of a stunning thousand year old Church filled with masterpieces of Catholic art to find a large poster on the side explicitly depicting a homosexual act (and I'm talking full nudity).

Or visiting a shrine filled with devout pilgrims praying the Rosary then going to the gift shop and only finding small statues of Buddha and Hindu deities.

I suppose the most concise way I could describe my impression of Italy would be the words spiritual battle.

[homeschoolmom]

Gee, what if people's social security was somehow connected with the number of taxpayers they produced...?

[philothea]

In Hungary the government gives you an income to live on if you have children. Same reason. (Dropping population.)

[Sojourner]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Nov 2 2005, 08:06 AM']Gee, what if people's social security was somehow connected with the number of taxpayers they produced...?
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It sort of is.

[prose]

Wow...

In Alberta our government had a surplus of a few million this year, so we (every man, woman, and child) are getting a cheque for 400 bucks. Which is like 1600 for our little family.

Some of our friends are getting up to $4000 (they have 8 kids).

Cool... Kinda off topic, but cool.

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Sojourner' date='Nov 2 2005, 10:50 AM']It sort of is.
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I meant their personal SS benefits, not societies. As it is now, it's based upon earnings. This benefits the DINKS and penalizes the SAHMs...

[prose]

DINKS... gahhhh.....

My hubby and I always make fun of them.. :

Edited November 2, 2005 by prose