After men in Spain got paternity leave, they wanted fewer kids

Unexpectedly, though, the researchers also found that families who were eligible for the paternity leave were less likely to have kids in the future. Correlation isn’t causation, and it’s possible that other factors weighed more heavily than paternity leave on men’s family preferences. “In Spain, almost no men were taking paternity leave before the policy, and that jumped to more than half of men after the reform.

Source: qz.com