You don’t fix declining birth rates with subsidies. The problem is cultural: we’ve brainwashed people into seeing children as burdens instead of blessings. We need to restore pride in family, ancestry and legacy and stop glorifying the miserable, atomized single life.
So what’s the plan to make people “want” to have children again?
4k a month mortgage to get a starter home, with both parents working full time, to afford two cars and bills, while daycare costs $1500 + a month per child, neighbors no longer help each other, and families live far apart… and even if they were close, everyone is working full time
Schools get out at 2:30 and corporations want everyone back in the office until 5 every day
One day at an amusement park for 4 costs 500 bucks
Call me crazy but it just doesn’t sound that appealing if I was young again