What Vladimir Putin gets while John Key, David Cameron et al remain abysmally clueless

A photograph taken in the Kremlin yesterday where large families from all over the Russian Federation gathered to receive their "Parental Glory" awards from President Vladimir Putin.

It is Government policy to encourage large families because, as it was succintly put during the speeches

Without family, without this foundation we cannot be a strong nation, so I wish all parents to educate their children to create families that are strong

Indeed.

The entire developed world is in demographic decline and while we are experimenting with novelties like "gay" marriage, an exercise in futility, the Russian Federation is encouraging, that which it should be - the raising of children as an important and fundamental economic activity.