We should change the rules, and make every home with children: a daycare center. Of course, they don't look after 20 kids - just two, three, and BONUS: a financial incentive will encourage more babies.
All deserving kids get their mum to look after them at home - and paid $$$$. Doesn't have to be millions per mum, even. And mums can even go and visit other mums - at -gasp- church, or the swimming pool, ot the library - let's get creative.
It is time the country recognizes mums, and pays them to look after their own kids. It seems that billions was spent NOT looking after kids, just scammy adults. Bastard-ghosts.
Only half joking about paying mums, BTW.
The current Total Fertility Rate for the USA is 1.6 children per average couple.
That is below replacement rate.
Surely, something must be changed.
Maybe there is an idea that population that is dropping in fertility is not a bad thing - for eugenicists, or global warming depopulation peeps, but there are several countries who are thinking very hard about that replacement rate. One such recently-made apparent issue is that boomers have to be supported in their lowered ability years, by a much smaller demographic -What happened? A horde of foreign health workers, because there simply are not enough of them within the nation.
Governments should at least try and manage the replacement rate, and not let the population drop precipitously off the planet, at least at national levels. A dropping population means a dropping tax-take - and I think it is now pretty obvious that importing some random bodies into the country only costs money, it doesn't make faithful taxpayers. Ergo: It's a losing game, in every aspect.
Create a policy to pay for every kid in the country (means-tested, birth certificate and all that verification - so less scamming). Bonus, one can avoid large capital investment, without paying for special 'centres'- that turn out to be empty - LOL.
The point is - those centres need lots of real estate and 'outsourcing', or one could call it 'de-centralizing' that real estate cost to the very house lived in by the mum and kids, will actually be so much easier and cheaper. Also, in today's environment of home-schooling and online learning, it could quickly work.
Does everyone agree that little kids need their mums? Also, that not supporting mothers makes people not wanna have kids?
One could even throw in some money for laptops, and internet connections, given the savings in the system from that ugly, useless renting of empty barns.
By all means have some playcentres, but the more money given to the mums, the more kids there will be. Currently it appears that everyone seems to be realizing that there aren't as many kids, and there are too many day-care centres. That is actually a sign that the demographic is decreasing. Like a bust in the market. And of course, it's ripe for fraud.
I am just spit-balling, thinking about all that money that has been stolen. And trying to be more fair. I mean: successive governments were happy to send that money to empty barns and grubby hands. NOT children.
We should change the rules, and make every home with children: a daycare center. Of course, they don't look after 20 kids - just two, three, and BONUS: a financial incentive will encourage more babies.
All deserving kids get their mum to look after them at home - and paid $$$$. Doesn't have to be millions per mum, even. And mums can even go and visit other mums - at -gasp- church, or the swimming pool, ot the library - let's get creative.
It is time the country recognizes mums, and pays them to look after their own kids. It seems that billions was spent NOT looking after kids, just scammy adults. Bastard-ghosts.
Only half joking about paying mums, BTW.
The current Total Fertility Rate for the USA is 1.6 children per average couple.
That is below replacement rate.
Surely, something must be changed.
Maybe there is an idea that population that is dropping in fertility is not a bad thing - for eugenicists, or global warming depopulation peeps, but there are several countries who are thinking very hard about that replacement rate. One such recently-made apparent issue is that boomers have to be supported in their lowered ability years, by a much smaller demographic -What happened? A horde of foreign health workers, because there simply are not enough of them within the nation.
Governments should at least try and manage the replacement rate, and not let the population drop precipitously off the planet, at least at national levels. A dropping population means a dropping tax-take - and I think it is now pretty obvious that importing some random bodies into the country only costs money, it doesn't make faithful taxpayers. Ergo: It's a losing game, in every aspect.
Create a policy to pay for every kid in the country (means-tested, birth certificate and all that verification - so less scamming). Bonus, one can avoid large capital investment, without paying for special 'centres'- that turn out to be empty - LOL.
The point is - those centres need lots of real estate and 'outsourcing', or one could call it 'de-centralizing' that real estate cost to the very house lived in by the mum and kids, will actually be so much easier and cheaper. Also, in today's environment of home-schooling and online learning, it could quickly work.
Does everyone agree that little kids need their mums? Also, that not supporting mothers makes people not wanna have kids?
One could even throw in some money for laptops, and internet connections, given the savings in the system from that ugly, useless renting of empty barns.
By all means have some playcentres, but the more money given to the mums, the more kids there will be. Currently it appears that everyone seems to be realizing that there aren't as many kids, and there are too many day-care centres. That is actually a sign that the demographic is decreasing. Like a bust in the market. And of course, it's ripe for fraud.
I am just spit-balling, thinking about all that money that has been stolen. And trying to be more fair. I mean: successive governments were happy to send that money to empty barns and grubby hands. NOT children.
INb4: giving money to mums with kids = communism.
LOL