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by hasenj 3560 days ago
IMO a decent solution to the low-birth-rate problem is not to try to hook up all the singles together, but rather encourage existing couples to have more children.

Make it socially acceptable and even desirable to have more children. Give incentives to working men who have more children.

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This seems wrong to me. This seems to go against the promotion of diversity, for the species and in thought.

If society is moving toward the idea that children aren't a 'benefit,' then having people who are 'willing' to have children have more just postpones the issue, instead of fixing the root cause.

Presumably, those who have children would pass their genes onto those children, and raise their children similar to how they were raised. Therefore, those children would be more likely to have children than the general population.