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Germany's traditional type of family policy was fundamentally rehauled in recent years in order to boost female employment and improve options to reconcile job and family. France pursues a pronatalist policy that aims to increase female employment as well as fertility rates. Family policy in the Netherlands promotes a secondary-earner model. In Sweden, the focus of family policy is on facilitating female employment by child-care facilities, on increasing fathers' involvement and on reducing poverty by way of generous money transfers. In Denmark, the emphasis is on encouraging parents to quickly return to work. More recent reforms, especially with regard to parental leave, reflect an intensifying effort to increase fathers' involvement in some countries. 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