I won't pretend that it's especially easy to do this today, considering that most families have an implicit expectation of both parents working; and it's certai

I won't pretend that it's especially easy to do this today, considering that most families have an implicit expectation of both parents working; and it's certainly something I am in favour of further subsidization, including subsidizing would-be stay-at-home-parents enough to make it make sense to have a large family (i.e. off the top of my head, it seems reasonable that a SAHP should be able to make nearly as much gov't subsidy if they have 5 kids of their own as they worked as a childcare provider for that many). However, that doesn't seem like it would really work as a natalist policy, because it would further incentivize existing cultures that already have the structures for having large numbers of families intact, whereas the money on its own isn't really quite sufficient to compete against that.