1. Government subsidies don't cover anything close to the cost of raising a child. 2. Child-rearing is a thing tens of millions of people actually do interleav

1. Government subsidies don't cover anything close to the cost of raising a child. 2. Child-rearing is a thing tens of millions of people actually do interleaved with full-time work, and has to be addressed by high-level decision makers. There are lots of hypothetical things a specific individual might want to do that maybe have high social utility, and that's an interesting question for them to sort out with their manager and isn't really relevant to how parents are treated. 3. A stable population -- not growing -- requires a little over 2 children per woman, and the US fertility rate is waaaay below that right now.