What one country's experiment says about attempts to boost birth rates
Tamara Ceaikovski
Sitting on a park bench in the eastern Hungarian city of Debrecen, Barbara Elek is nervously refreshing her emails. She and her husband Levi are waiting to find out if Barbara is pregnant, after their third round of IVF 10 days ago. "If it doesn't succeed, then obviously I'll be devastated, and then the last resort will be trying to make sure that, at least financially, we don't lose everything," she says. Like many other young Hungarian couples Barbara, 33, a social worker and Levi, 34, a chef,
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