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How is it missing the point? It's recognizing that having babies is a valuable service to society. Why are you expecting women to run a charity via their wombs?
by lusus_naturae 3y ago
How is it missing the point? It's recognizing that having babies is a valuable service to society. Why are you expecting women to run a charity via their wombs? Pay any pregnant women the base rate for a new army recruit, and increase the pay annually or per milestone reached till a child is legally an adult. Do this for every child raised as an adult on top of a woman's own income from her job (maybe prorate based on her earned income). Actually, maybe there should be separate pays for child rearing as well so this benefit doesn't just help women, exclusively. We do this already via taxes and credits, this is just making things more proactive via month to month salary structure.
- proc0 3y agoThe point of having a child is not just for society, it's for your own personal benefit of passing on your genes. If you don't want to pass on your genes then don't reproduce. Also, if society pays people for their children, society also owns them (to the extent they pay for them), which at least in my opinion, I'd rather not have my children be property of the government.