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Well, I've figured a solution here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310186

• lutusp 13y ago
  That's not a solution. If the single mom gets the money, she has an incentive to make more children. If the children get the money, they have an incentive to become (as the saying goes) "children having children."
  • guard-of-terra 13y ago
    She doesn't have an incentive of having more than N children, after which payments degrade considerably. if N is 2, what you subsidy is normal healthy families.
    • lutusp 13y ago
      > She doesn't have an incentive of having more than N children, after which payments degrade considerably. Meaning she gets less money than she got for the first few. But not no money, just less. > if N is 2, what you subsidy is normal healthy families. Normal healthy families of social parasites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadya_Suleman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadya_Suleman
      • guard-of-terra 13y ago
        She also have to spend on children. Let's not count extreme examples because you could also sell children for organs, could not you? Social parasites are bankers and lawyers, why do you bring moms here, hello!?