>> A significant part of the problem seems to be one of ideology colliding with reality. I think you should read that a little more expansively that the things

>> A significant part of the problem seems to be one of ideology colliding with reality. I think you should read that a little more expansively that the things I explicitly commented on. Some examples of ideology: "children should be parented with high intensity", "men and women should be doing the exact same things in a family in exactly equal proportions with no specialization", "a family should consist of two capitalism-participting income-earners," etc. I suspect fixing the issues you outlined with the fixes you're implying wouldn't actually do anything to increase birthrates.