Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you want a higher birth rate, baby bonuses don’t work. They need to address the housing problem, the economic uncertainty, and the unavailability of daycare/expense of daycare. Men also need to modernize their approach to marriage and family. (Gift article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/baby-bonuses-fertility-planning-trump-aides-assess-ideas-to-boost-birthrate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BU8.NtkN.WagWczUEi5e6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
exactly who gets harmed with lower birthrates?
our nation is already overwhelmed with too many people.
please explain the problem with a lower birthrate?
Anonymous wrote:None of this is going to work. You have to get people interested in being married and having families. People simply aren’t motivated to care. And they’re already tiring of life by the time they might have enough money to afford children.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Everything you suggest if obvious to any mother.
And yet largely ignored by republicans who can’t wrap their head around why a woman should be able to plan a family or decide she can’t afford to raise a child.
Women are largely chattel to republicans. Their opinions do not matter. Men will tell then what to feel and do.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Everything you suggest if obvious to any mother.
And yet largely ignored by republicans who can’t wrap their head around why a woman should be able to plan a family or decide she can’t afford to raise a child.
Anonymous wrote:Everything you suggest if obvious to any mother.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:These are some of the more "interesting" proposals being considered to boost fertility in the US that are mentioned in the article:
*Reserving 30% of Fulbright scholarships for married applicants or those with children. [I thought the current admin was eliminating the Fullbright program?]
*Providing a $5,000 “baby bonus” for new mothers. [But how are they going to ensure that it motivates the "right" kind of women to have more babies?]
*Funding programs to teach women about their menstrual cycles and fertility awareness. [I'm all for women knowing more about their bodies, but conservatives have been attacking sex ed programs for decades].
*National Medal of Motherhood for women with 6+ children. [Gives Soviet Union vibes.]
These ideas will cause no one to change their minds and have a baby. These are the dumb ideas of men, who know exactly zero about motherhood.