According to a number of studies, the availability of childcare places is an important factor that influences birth rate, employment and family planning.
Häli Tarum
PhD student, University of Tartu
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According to a number of studies, the availability of childcare places is an important factor that influences birth rate, employment and family planning.
In order to ensure the sustainability of the European social model it is important that an increasingly larger part of the working-age population, especially women with caring responsibilities, participated in the labour market and that they did so for a longer period than before.
Researchers have stated that Estonia lacks a definite family policy vision and resources which would enable the state to create a coherent and supporting family policy.