>>>Luckily, it's all in the past now, well, most of it.
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>>Eh... I beg to differ. Most of what you describe here still is there in the Netherlands, though in less quantity. We don't get a year off, but arround 16 weeks arround the birth of a child. Daycare is partly funded by the government and affordable for most up here. We have something called kinderbijslag, which is a fund from which you receive some money every month to grow up your kids. It is not much, but just enough to make a difference to the poor. We also have the 'patronage nurse' over here, that would visit the new member of the family once or twice. And then we visit her regulary at her place to check out whether the child is developping normally until the age of 4 (i think).
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>Just wait until the West enforces democracy on you.

Or capitalism... LOL