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It's hard making a moderate-income 3+ chidren family the role model. It's obvious how you would like to exploit their fertility but they still have to foot the
by thriftwy 4y ago
It's hard making a moderate-income 3+ chidren family the role model. It's obvious how you would like to exploit their fertility but they still have to foot the financial, logistic and labor costs of raising a lot of children.
Especially hard if you expect mother to not have her life while having all these kids, who are then going to depart their home and make her life even more eventless.
- jojobas 4y agoA family with 2-3 children was the definition of "poster family" in the US up to at least the 60s. Then something started to shift. Again, the majority of people in the West are better off than the majority of people anywhere else, affording children is a matter of life priorities.
- thriftwy 4y agoAs I've already said, you can't buy time, and that's the coin people in the West may have in even shorter supply than their peers elsewhere. Israel kind of shows that having the life priorities that you desire is possible. But I'm not sure how to do that in practice, or even if it is feasible until the current population Ponzi scheme wears off and then a few generations pass.