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Nick's avatar

Culture matters — but birthrates don’t fall because of “bad values.” They fall when kids shift from economic assets to liabilities.

200 years ago, 10 kids meant wealth. Today, it means debt — $250k per child from birth to 18, no ROI.

You can’t “re-moralize” people into ignoring math.

Fix housing. Offset costs. Then talk culture.

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Nick's avatar

Current family incentives cover only a small slice of the actual cost of raising a child.

No wonder they haven’t reversed falling birthrates — they may slow the decline, but that’s not proof incentives don’t work. It just proves they’re not nearly enough.

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Peter Naus's avatar

This was really cool, too bad mainstream media doesn't talk about this!

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Rob's avatar

What's the source for the Canadian TFR chart?

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