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  • It is often said that children are investment in our future and given the way our world functions, that is the truth. Now, would you rather invest the minimum in our children and their parents and hope that it’s incentive enough to have them, or do as much as possible to encourage having enough children as well as well-rounded ones?

    IMO you should stop seeing it as a “reimbursement by the public” but an investment. Good football players don’t just fall out of the sky. You need the facilities, the trainers, and yes, the parents to be there to drive them to games, encourage them not to give up when they lose, to take care of them when they get hurt, to buy their equipment, to cheer them on, and a lot more.









  • South Korea, Japan, Germany, and many other countries “grappling” with decreasing birth-rates have to consider paying parents for children. They are a full-time job.

    I do believe however that it should be tied to performance. The worse you do in raising your child, the more the state inserts itself into raising the child. All parents should have to take mandatory classes on child-rearing e.g what is good food for a child, importance of vaccines, how much sleep does a child normally need, how to recognize developmental problems (speech impediments, physical problems, …), and so on. Basically, pressing a phone into the hands of your child and letting them watch youtube all day probably isn’t good for them, neither is feeding them burgers and smoking around them.