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by netsharc 2091 days ago
Most European countries give parents monthly stipends for children and even one-off payments for births, so that's.. a little incentive.
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Yes. US wasn't incentivizing having children because the population growth historically always used to be a solid 1%. But it ended around 2008, so policy is likely to change soon.

"The West" taken in general predictably provides incentives when it sees effects of small or negative population growth.

Take for example stats for the year 2000 to see how the past shaped policy of today:

  - US 1.1%
  - France 0.7%
  - UK 0.4%
  - Germany 0.1%
  - Italy 0.0%