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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (18 children)

I think this is where a lot of modern civilization is falling apart at. If you want population replacement and growth, you actually have to make it advantageous to have children, and at appropriate age for your society and culture. The GOP thinks they can do it by destroying reproductive rights, civil rights, and marriage laws, if they harm women enough they'll HAVE to be baby makers! Dehumanized baby factories! And even conservative voters are fighting against it, because it's insane and it's against our current culture. It has to work for everyone. It would be more intelligent to create free childcare, better pregnancy and birth leave for both parents, and child tax credits. They could use WIC to absorb the cost of having a child and public education sooner with preschool. If people are hopeful their children will have high education access and a stable life they will be a lot more likely to have kids. Being horrified that your children will live in a fascist theocracy and intentionally kept uneducated and poverty stricken, they might actually voluntarily avoid sex to not have kids.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Let's not pretend the GOP are doing it for the good of humanity....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think this is where a lot of modern civilization is falling apart at. If you want population replacement and growth, you actually have to make it advantageous to have children, and at appropriate age for your society and culture.

For most of history it wasn't advantageous to have children. People just didn't have many options, and we were used to babies dying all the time so if we wanted any help in our old age we had to have enough to survive into adulthood.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Been there. What are you drinking? I'm sipping on some Bushmills Black (sherry cask). Got a bit project out today. Spent a year writing this beast:

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