This from swedish media today:
http://www.di.se/artiklar/2013/10/9/enklare-att-komma-ur-skuldfallanIŽll try and make a translation for you -
"Simpler to get out of the debt trap
It will get easier to get help if youŽve ended up in the debt trap. That is the purpose of the proposition made by an investigation handed over to minister of justice Beatrice Ask.
The investigation proposes among other things that the application method for the indebted will be simplified, and that todays tough demands for debt settlement is used more subtlety, and that the individuals own conditions to pay ones debt is accounted for.
The investigation has also had the children perspective in mind on debt settlement by suggesting two grace (translation?) months each year, june and december, so that kids to indebted can get an extra ice cream during the summer and christmas gifts."
WTF! I wonŽt type more from the article since that is where I want to put the exclamation mark. We already have laws that reward taking on debt (tax deductions for interest payments for example) in Sweden. A kid needs clothes, a home and healthy food, the kid does not *need* an ice cream or christmas gifts.