I believe the issue is not the price, but that the distribution of wealth has become highly unequal. We now have 90% who cannot afford to raise kids well. And

I believe the issue is not the price, but that the distribution of wealth has become highly unequal. We now have 90% who cannot afford to raise kids well. And 10% who can. But no matter how wealthy, each couple can only get pregnant once at a time. One solution would be to allow extremely rich people to marry multiple times so that they can produce more kids in parallel. But that's going to cause a lot of societal issues when marriable women become sparse for the majority of the population (see China).