Denmark to make child support payments gender neutral COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Calling the country's maternal subsidy "a relic from the olden days," Danish politicians are about to allow it to be split between moms and dads. Currently, all Danish mothers irrespective of their financial situation, are paid a stipend to help offset the costs of child-rearing. Women can request the quarterly stipend be shared with their husbands or the child's father, but the default is that the money goes to the mother only. Jyllands-Posten reported politicians from across the political spectrum agree at birth, parents should be allowed to determine how they want the money to be dispersed, the Copenhagen Post reported Saturday. "When one has a child, there are already a bunch of papers to fill out, and I can't see that it would add to the bureaucracy to ask the parents if they would like the [child support] paid to the father, the mother or to a joint account," Member of Parliament Johan Schmidt-Nielsen said. It should be up to the parents, and therefore the rules should be changed. ... [It's] a relic from the olden days.