The eastern European demographic problem . The government should give more aid to big families .

Most of eastern European countries have a decreasing population and aging population .I think that countries which have a decreasing population should give demographics as high priority as economic growth .

If their are less births today that means that in 25 years their will be a decline in working age population . It will hurt the economy and led to political problems .First their will be less workers and then less tax money to give to elderly people .

Statistics :

Lithuania birth rate 9.1 per 1000 people

Poland birth rate 9.5 per 1000 people

And both have a birth rate lower 2.0 births per women and a declining population . ( wikipedia )

So the government should give bigger tax breaks or more money to parents which have children .

I will argue that tax breaks or financial incentives will fail to encourage families to have more children.

This sort of scheme is already being tried in Italy, but it has not succeeded in motivating couples to have more children than they previously wanted. It has only spurred couples who already wanted children to have them sooner so as to get the money.

The real demographic problem is much broader than finances, although money is a factor. As long as it is expensive to (1) have a child, (2) own a home, (3) provide child care, and (4) provide health care for a family, then families will have fewer children. However, a much more powerful factor is one of personal choice. Many individuals delay living on their own, or getting married, or having children because they want to indulge in a youthful lifestyle for as long as possible. They live at home for convenience, invest in cars and video games instead of homes and retirement, and view institutions such as marriage as "old fashioned" or "religious."

Thus, they do not see marriage as desirable or necessary, or a prerequisite to having children. In America, there is a growing divide between traditional, religious people who marry earlier and have more children and modern, secular people who marry later and have fewer children. Europe is far more secular than America, and suffering far greater childlessness. It is reasonable to think the same causes apply to Eastern Europe as America.

This indicates that if you wish to motivate citizens to reproduce more, you need to somehow promote more traditional family values to make marriage and children more attractive than a swinging single lifestyle. Money is an insufficient motivator.

Money is an important factor .

Let's look at France in the year 1994 it's fertility rate was 1.66 , but in 2007 it's fertility rate increased to 1.95 for metropolitan France .Because it increased it's aid to big families ( kindergarten , free public transport) and more flexible labour market.

And now let's see Germany it's fertility rate didn't really change from 1.3
Even if it had the same number of immigrants .

We can not say that Germans have usually more small families , because before in 19 century their population nearly tripled from 21 millions to 56 millions when French population only increased by a third 30 millions to 40 millions.

But the difference is that France gave aid and Germany didn't give aid to big families ,also if you look who is more religious you will see that France has 44% of non believers and Germany had only 25% of non believers .
( wikipedia )
So if you give aid you can increase the fertility by even 0.6 which can mean an increasing or decreasing population .

Yes religion plays a major role , but still government can play a big role in
fertility rate as we have seen the German - French model .(Both don't have a lot of traditional families and still France has a bigger fertility rate )

Again, I stated that financial considerations are relevant. However, your initial statement was that government should provide tax breaks and money for families with children. I have already shown from the recent example in Italy that simply throwing money at people does not change their decisions about having children. There are other things government must do.

In France, the government's programs to help families are brilliantly complex. They include day care centers, maternity leave, transportation discounts, job protection, free preschool, more vacation leave, summer camps, educational opportunities, and other social services. http://www.washingtonpost.com...

This proves that the only way to encourage family growth is by re-orienting society to value families by offering a full spectrum of aid that supports parents and children.

Simple tax schemes or financial payouts are not sufficient.