> Free universal childcare, free universal child healthcare, legally-mandated accommodations with government enforcement for childbirth ... would massively chan

> Free universal childcare, free universal child healthcare, legally-mandated accommodations with government enforcement for childbirth ... would massively change the equation Norway and Finland have all of that and yet their birth rates are 1.48 and 1.37. Germany, Belgium and Netherlands too have those goodies and yet have a birthrate around 1.55. So your premise seems faulty.