Family + social policy (global)

• Russia-post 1917 revolution :

  • Divorce + abortion easy to obtain
  • Guaranteed equality between sexes
  • Women encouraged into paid employment
  • State provides workplace + other communal nurseries (state paid)
• China-1917-2011:

  • Women require permission to become pregnant
  • Women put on waiting list
  • Couples who comply get extra benefits (e.g. Free childcare + higher tax allowances)
  • A only child gets priority in terms of education + housing in later life
  • Couples who don't comply must replay previous allowances + fined
  • Women pressured into sterilisation after first child
• Romania - 1980 (IVF technique)

  • Abortion + contraception restricted
  • Infertility centres set up
  • Divorce laws more strict
  • Legal age for marriage lowered to 15
  • Unmarried adults + childless couples pay an extra 5% income tax
• Nazi Germany - 1930:

  • Main population - restricted abortion + concentration
  • Women kept away from workforce
  • Women confined to children, kitchen + church
  • 375,000 disabled people sterilised