Children are expensive and take time to raise. It's no wonder that much of the world asks "why even have kids," where being childfree is positively correlated w

Children are expensive and take time to raise. It's no wonder that much of the world asks "why even have kids," where being childfree is positively correlated with increases in education and income. As the world population gets more educated, I don't really see this trend reversing. Even if people were given free healthcare, pre/post-natal care, childcare, etc, I doubt this would incentivize enough people to have enough kids, as the money and time required to raise kids still does not change. If you really want to get into unethical ways to increase the birth rate, you would ban abortions (which China seems to be toying with [0]) and provide no sex education, effectively forcing people to have children. I wonder if we'll see more countries push towards something like that as the birth rate continues to decline. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_China#cite_note-auto2-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_China#cite_note-au...