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In Australia you get $4000 for having a child. No questions asked : produce baby, get cash. This has done wonders for the birth rate. It's actually a respons
by brc 17y ago
In Australia you get $4000 for having a child. No questions asked : produce baby, get cash. This has done wonders for the birth rate. It's actually a response to the problem of the baby boomers : they know they need more workers to pay taxes to look after them, and encouraging babies now will pay off in 20 years time when baby boomers are retiring in record numbers.
- taw 17y agoMost countries do something like that, either as direct cash or more commonly as some sort of income tax discount. Plus free health care and education for the kid of course, so parents don't have to pay for that. The problem is that this amount is usually very tiny compared to cost of having the child, so it won't really make that much difference.