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What if the government paid Americans to have babies?

Would Americans Have More Babies if the Government Paid Them?


A Republican senator, Mitt Romney, joined Democrats this month in supporting an idea: a monthly child allowance for parents. One reason, he said, was to increase the number of births.

Family policies have lots of goals, including decreasing child poverty, helping parents manage work and family, and improving children’s health and education. But would a child allowance increase fertility?

Research from around the world suggests that, like other fertility policies, payments to parents do slightly increase the number of babies people have in the near term. But no move has made a major long-term difference, and payments are not as effective as other policies, particularly subsidized child care.

The proposed payments also raise another question: whether encouraging people to have more children should be a policy goal in the first place.

“Much better, more effective and better for human rights, is to create conditions that allow people to control their fertility, and have children if they want to,” said Philip Cohen, a sociologist studying demographics at the University of Maryland.

Government benefits to encourage women to have children, known as pronatalist policies, are common in other rich countries, where the birthrate began falling well before it did in the United States, around 2008. Governments worry about declining fertility for many reasons, including that the next generation finances the safety net and provides the caregivers, inventors and public servants of the future.

The birthrate in the United States fell in part because of large decreases in births among two groups: teenage and Hispanic women. The Great Recession also contributed to the fertility decline — births have sunk below replacement level since then, and there are indications that the pandemic may decrease fertility further. American women are also waiting longer to have babies.

There are many reasons. Would-be parents face challenges like the rising cost of child care, record student debt, a lack of family-friendly policies, workplace discrimination against mothers, and concerns about climate change and political unrest. At the same time, women have more options for their lives than ever before and more control over their reproduction. As countries become wealthier, and as women have more opportunities, fertility rates decline, data shows.



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Re: Countries in Europe and Asia are already doing it so why not here too??
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2021, 10:02:59 PM »
Man she would benefit from it if there's no cap especially when having all 8 at once  ???:




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Re: Countries in Europe and Asia are already doing it so why not here too??
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2021, 10:05:57 PM »
And this family  ???:




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Re: Countries in Europe and Asia are already doing it so why not here too??
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2021, 01:15:10 AM »
More kids mean more welfare checks coming in.



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