[dhruval]

Seems a bit extreme to have the government pay people to have kids on the level of a full time job when you consider that through most of human history people worked to support their kids / families and at much lower income levels.

Looking at Northern Europe seems their TFR is similar to the USA despite incentives.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

That is until the children were able to work for the family, so having children was literally an investment: pay upfront to have income.