The Public Chamber proposed introducing a 2 million ruble paternal capital.

The introduction of a 2 million ruble paternal capital in Russia will support large families and provide an additional incentive for housing construction, according to the chairman of the Public Chamber of Russia's Commission on Demography, Protection of Families, Children, and Traditional Family Values. Sergey Rybalchenko.

"In 40% of cases, mothers with three children no longer work, and if they have four children, they work even less. And the additional burden falls on the father's shoulders, so the father, of course, should receive such capital," the official reasons.

The leader of the LDPR had previously made a similar proposal. Leonid Slutsky. "Fathers desperately need support right now," — said the politician. And the media manager Ivan Bakurov At a round table in the State Duma, he called it unfair that there is maternity capital but not paternal capital. "A year has passed? Still haven't gotten divorced or left for another woman? Get your million." — he voiced his idea of ​​a “loyalty award.”

Currently, maternity capital is paid to men only if the child's mother is unable to receive the money herself—she has died or has been deprived of parental rights.

Another incentive for fathers, which officials have already mentioned, is a shorter working day for young fathers. "The initiative will provide a real opportunity to fully participate in caring for the baby," — the Deputy Speaker of the State Duma believes Boris Chernyshov.

Meanwhile, a bill to pay stay-at-home mothers a living wage was lost somewhere in the State Duma. Incidentally, some men on social media were alarmed that women would be paid "for washing dishes."

And a professor at the Financial University under the Government Alexander Safonov, in turn, proposed taxing housewives, believing that they work unofficially or are “professional slackers.”