France distinguished itself in the first half of the 20th century by implementing a proactive policy of support for families.
As early as 1932, the Landry law generalized the principle of family bonuses for all employees in industry and commerce with at least two children.
Then in 1938 a decree-law created family allowances paid whatever the income and progressive according to the size of the family.
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The origins of family policy even date back to the Second Empire: as early as 1860, an imperial circular established a family supplement for sailors, according to Jacques Bichot, honorary president of the Union of Families in Europe.
Then, at the end of the 19th century, the State set up family salary supplements for its civil servants, as it had granted them pensions a few decades earlier.
The whole system was strengthened after the Second World War, with the extension of family allowances to…
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