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I don't think the problem is that people don't want to go through the mechanics of having kids, it's that they have other priorities that trump wanting to commi

I don't think the problem is that people don't want to go through the mechanics of having kids, it's that they have other priorities that trump wanting to commit the massive amount of time and resources necessary to raise kids. That's a much more complex problem. I'd be highly skeptical that we could scale an alternative development environment that even approximated the benefits of having a loving family that wanted to commit to your upbringing being their main focus in life.

bluntfang 7y ago
I suggest you give Brave New World, which i mentioned in the previous comment, a look. Huxley solves this problem with communal child rearing. Basically it's public school, but from child birth without the nuclear family model. The idea that you need a mom and dad (or even 2 parents) to love and raise a child is becoming obsolete.