This is an odd hobby horse. I’m neutral on a birth rate increase but this smacks of treating symptoms of economic stress. If you’re in a situation as a society

This is an odd hobby horse. I’m neutral on a birth rate increase but this smacks of treating symptoms of economic stress. If you’re in a situation as a society where your income as real purchase power is rising then the solution to this problem is to buy another car (which people do anyway) or outsource your transport. At one point the author mentions some people dislike minivans. If avoiding minivans and SUVs is the reason to avoid a third child, I doubt their heart was in it. Most of the top ten vehicles sold this year are large, expensive, SUVs and Trucks. That’s not the situation we’re in as a country. Housing is a larger expense and more broadly felt problem than car seats. There are some comparable increases in birth rate linked to decreases in home prices i the linked NBER paper. Real Wages are flat for most. Is that car seat really the deal breaker if the rest of expenses for a third child can’t be covered? https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g39628015/best-selling-cars-2022/ https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g39628015/best-selling-car... https://www.nber.org/papers/w17485 https://www.nber.org/papers/w17485 https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us... https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/090415/cost-raising-child-america.asp https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/09041... https://money.com/child-care-costs-declining-birth-rate/ https://money.com/child-care-costs-declining-birth-rate/