Family solidarity, gender equality, and fertility

The three dimensions

1. Family solidarity: This typically refers to the traditional family structure.
2. Gender equality (sexual equality): This typically refers to ex ante symmetry between the sexes in their starting points in negotiation of family rules, as well as close to statistical parity in the ex post division of roles between the sexes.
3. Fertility: How many children women have.

Types of policies

Policy type	Prototype	Family policy page	Relation with family solidarity	Relation with gender equality	Relation with fertility
Pro-traditionalist	Germany	Family policy in Germany	Pro	Neutral, somewhat anti in practice	Neutral by default, but somewhat pro in stated intention in practice (though some pro-traditionalist policies are strongly pronatalist), might be anti in effect in practice
Pro-egalitarian	Sweden	Family policy in Sweden	Neutral, somewhat anti in practice	Pro	Neutral by default, may be pro or anti in practice depending on the form of execution
Pro-natalist	France	Family policy in France	Neutral, may be pro or anti	Neutral, may be pro or anti	Pro
Non-interventionist with means-tested help and some forms of recourse	UK, USA	Family policy in UK, Family policy in USA	Pro in the weak sense of helping families that already exist when they really need it	Pro in the weak sense of protecting negative rights	Neutral, may be pro or anti in practice