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If a society wants to fix a population decline so badly, it should make having and raising children free or as low-cost as possible. I suspect most people avoi
by tenebrisalietum 5y ago
If a society wants to fix a population decline so badly, it should make having and raising children free or as low-cost as possible. I suspect most people avoid having kids due to the economic impact of their own lives, which shows that the wider society could really give a damn.
- varajelle 5y ago> If a society wants to fix a population decline so badly But is it something that needs to be "fixed"?
- toomuchtodo 5y agoIt’s not a problem to be fixed. It’s a success story.
- Verdex 5y agoEach of my children have required some extra medical attention. As well as my wife's pregnancies. Total cost per child hovers around $100k so far. But obviously no one can pay that so either it's insurance or it goes to collections. In my case it's insurance. Only I've got a high deductible plan. 5k deductible. And because pregnancies go 9 months there's a chance that any given pregnancy costs 10k. Meanwhile I asked my mom how much her pregnancies cost (all three c sections). Apparently insurance basically picked up all costs such that only trivial amounts were left over. We've been extremely lucky to have ways to afford our children's births so far. Nothing we planned for just things that happened that saved us a ton of money. I honestly am not sure how most people handle this financially.