Family capital, free IVF, maternity support. How does Lukashenko deal with demographic problems?

Over the past 10 years the number of parents with many children in Belarus has doubled. Today there are 121,000 families in the country raising three or more children. Of course, this is not by chance. The government constantly invests in families. While last year more than Br2.5 billion was allocated to support them, this year the figure will be Br3.2 billion. But there are also concrete benefits and guarantees in addition to payments. About 7% of the GDP is spent annually to make Belarusian families feel more secure. In the new episode of BelTA's YouTube project After the Fact: Lukashenko's Decisions we will talk about how the state invests in families, why Belarusian women are having children later in life and how our country remains in the top of the most comfortable countries for mothers.

“One child is your child. Two children? Let's look at the family, maybe someone needs support, but they are your children, too. But the third child is mine. I remember meeting with a women's group at some factory. All of them were young women. And they started talking about children. I said: ‘Let's agree: the third child is mine and a little bit yours. The fourth is 100%, and the fifth child and the next ones are mine. Agreed?' They were silent… I say: ‘Why aren't you saying anything?' ‘Oh, we will have to give a birth after all.' ‘Well, I can't give birth instead of you,' I say,” the head of state said in an address to the nation and the parliament more than ten years ago, in 2011. Maternity benefits, childcare allowance for children up to the age of three, and bonuses for the eldest child if there are two children. And if anyone thinks that maternity pay is modest, tell