“The idea is that it is proportionate to your last salary”, indicates Aurore Bergé

The birth rate is at half mast in France. “Since ten years, you have a decline in the birth rate, which has worsened [en] 2022-2023. It is still difficult to explain the factors. What matters is that in fact, o“There is a disconnect today between the number of children we want to have and the number of children we actually have.”explains Aurore Bergé, Minister of Solidarity and Families, guest of “4 Vérités” on France 2, Friday November 10.

“We need to better support future parents”

What to do in the face of this observation? “We need to better support future parents, this is the reason for family leave in particular.ilial, and then that parents feel supported, that there is a much more caring society towards parents and children”develops the Minister of Solidarity and Families.

The government announced the creation of family leave, which would not replace parental leave. “Today there is maternity leave, paternity leave, and beyond that there is parental leave, which can last up to two years or three years if it is shared between both parents. The problem is is that he is paid a maximum of 430 euros per month. […] The idee, it isst to say: we are creating an additional right […] so that after maternity and paternity leave they finally have family leave which they can take either at the same time or successively and which is much better compensated”specifies Aurore Bergé.

That’s to say ? “We will go well beyond 430 euros […]. Above all, the idee, it isst that it is proportionate to your last salary”indicates the Minister of Solidarity and Families.