Would You Have a Baby to Keep Your Local Public Services Going?

January 20, 2015

(The Guardian) – Would you offer up your womb in exchange for public services? The news that the Danish region of Thisted has agreed to keep its schools, nurseries and leisure facilities open only as long as the local population improves its birth rate seems to be encouraging exactly that. The rural community has taken this unusual action in the face of a rapidly declining population, where people leave to find the opportunities and education not available in the country’s more remote areas.