Julia Scharle, 33, has benefited from some of the world’s most generous schemes to support childbearing.
As the Hungarian mother and her husband had their three children, they received more than €80,000 in grants and loans from the government, including a grant of about €6,000 to help them buy a new Renault Scenic minivan — large enough to carry everyone.
The funds also included a €25,000 loan that accompanied the birth of her second child in 2019. Discounts on that loan grew when she had another child; a fourth baby would have pardoned the entire sum, but it was not to be. “We wanted a fourth . . . but we were advised against it for medical reasons. We are a religious family and took this very badly.”
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