The Daily Populous Sunday June 1st, 2025 morning edition
Authored by aa.com.tr and submitted by self-fix

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Efficient_Ad2242 on June 1st, 2025 at 03:09 UTC »

Maybe the support policies are finally starting to make a difference?

N3bu89 on June 1st, 2025 at 02:14 UTC »

It's fascinating how so few understand the core problem with Birth Rates in developed, wealthy, countries.

At a certain turning point in the wealth cycle, children cease to become a net contributor to retirement wealth and production, as they tend to be in subsistence and unskilled labor dominated economies with low workforce protections, and start to become huge net costs of the standards of living of most of the working and middle class. Children at this point are perceived as more an existential benefit, or perhaps it's better terms as an existential luxury. It's an expensive "luxury good" that is consumed to meet existential needs on an individual level, but from a social perspective is incredibly necessary.

If governments want more kids, they need to radically reduce the costs of having kids to reduce the burdens they place on people. Direct Cash bonuses don't really work because the net inflows are more fungible, the kids still incur a cost and the benefits aren't great offsets in comparison to lost working hours and childcare costs. If government can instead help reduce the impact children have on incomes and budgets, they may find that a more cost-effective and useful strategy over the long term, but that would require significant intervention both in the provision of parental leave and childcare sectors.

zzzzyyyy111 on June 1st, 2025 at 01:16 UTC »

What policy had changed for this to happen?