Family models, Employment and Fertility– Aims of "Sustainable" Family Policy as Reflected in Population and Labour Market Statistics

In his commentary Stefan Fuchs, Institut für Demografie, Allgemeinwohl und Familie (IDAF), Sankt Augustin, discusses the objectives of "sustainable family policy" and the paradigm change to a model of mothers who work full-time, or at least almost full-time. He focuses on the question of a correlation between the number of women in the workforce and birth rates.