Generally speaking, individuals are not permitted to purchase infants, which is probably for the best. But, as it turns out, governments ca n’t even pay people to have them — and that’s a problem.  ,
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A Sunday Wall Street Journal article confirmed what other local newspapers had reported: that government efforts to bribe people into having babies are n’t working. ” Imagine if having children came with more than$ 150, 000 in cheap loans, a subsidized minivan and a lifetime exemption from income taxes”, the paper reported. ” Would individuals have more children? The answer, it seems, is no”.
Vladimir Putin declared 2024″ the year of the home,” and “reversing the reduction in birthrates has become a national objective among governments around the world, including in China and Russia.” In the U. S., both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have pledged to reevaluate the U. S.’s home plans. Harris wants to offer a$ 6, 000 child bonus”.
$ 6, 000 is about one year of auto insurance for my eldest brother.  ,
Russia’s almost three-year efforts to subjugate Ukraine is fueled in part by the fact that there are more racial Slavs needed because Russian ladies are n’t having much infants while Russia’s increasingly restive Muslim minority are having enough. Of course, Ukrainian women are n’t having enough babies, either. Puntin appears to believe that combining two sinking boats will result in a single craft that is seaworthy, but it does n’t.
Either the baby-deficient peoples of the world change that round, or whole nations become self-selected for death. I enjoy a world of limitless variety that includes Koreans, Americans, Russians, Chinese, and European people. Cultural death goes against every organ in our bodies and against everything we are taught, or at least have been taught.  ,
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May stringent laws support abortion? Possibly at the margins, but probably no more. Ireland makes a strong case for an abortion, having gone from an absolute restrictions in 1861 to a constitutionally guaranteed “equal right to life of the female woman and the pregnant” in 1983.  ,
Ireland’s fertility price fell below the replacement degree in 1992 despite some of the strictest abortion laws in the West, and it has only decreased significantly since the 36th Amendment, which gave women access to abortion for the first 12 weeks.  ,
The crux of our baby problem is n’t legal or medical. It’s historical.  ,
In an August column for the New York Post, Glenn” Instapundit” Reynolds recommended making parenting” cool” again.
Parents are cited for letting their children play in their own front feet without any direct supervision, but our society rejects the idea of independence for school-age children.
And caregiving is, let’s face it, a low-prestige action in our world.
As with so many futuristic — or at the very least, destructive — styles, this one seems to have originated in California. Or at least, in San Francisco, where I first heard my left friends sneer at people with kids as “breeders” after 30 or so years.
” It was n’t always that way”, Glenn added. ” TV shows when portrayed multi-kid people as normal and happy, and families as wise and excellent”.
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Left unanswered: also relationship is often portrayed as stupid. Male and female characters are typically very self-absorbed to make the effort to sit down and start households, especially in women’s Television shows.  ,
This father of two had the good fortune to have found Robert Heinlein in my early teens. I would have gone for three but I did n’t find the right girl when I was still young enough. All the philosophers in history have n’t been able to find it, according to one of his most enduring characters, Lazarus Long, who once said,” If there is a purpose in life more important than two people cooperating in making a baby, then it is only two people cooperating.”
And government always did. It’s off to us.  ,
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