I am generally against government intervention, but if there is one thing we should have the government doing it is funding programs to get successful people having kids.
Sure a child credit can get high-school dropouts who make more money having 6 kids over working reproducing, but we need a system that captures university grads and high skill workers.
My girlfriend for instance loves her work and wants to have two kids, but she is very hesitant for three given the amount of time she would have to take off of work.
Part of that are her expectations for her career, but part of that is also that straight up taking time off of work to raise kids even when paid does impact career.
I wonder if Covid and the shift to working from home can help here.
I disagree with you on this. The problem is teaching women to value careers over children. No woman should be hesitant to take time off work for having children because no woman should value her career so highly. The root problem in the first place is the government's interventions in forcing the narrative at a social level in government policies and education that women should be equal to men at the work place. Some women should perhaps but most people should prefer to nurture their children while the man provides for her.
I can't remember who said this but I heard a quote: "In the 60s we had a bunch of tomboys masquerading as housewives. Now we have a bunch of housewives masquerading as tomboys.
If we stopped trying to push equality and instead let women embrace both their femininity and their nurturing desire by removing all the social propaganda and government policies that push women into the provider role against their nature, you would have much higher paying jobs available for men because men wouldn't be competing with women for them as much.
The irony about men and women having equal roles in the workforce with equal pay is that this hasn't improved median family incomes.That's because when mostly only men dominated the top 50% of jobs while women dominated the bottom 50% of jobs, when a man and women combined to form a household, their combined income would be about the same as two median income individuals combining together today since today men and women compete with each other equally so men have lower salaries on average than they did before while women have higher. It equals out in the end. A major difference though is that now women don't have the time, the energy or the freedom to raise children like they would have in their lower strata jobs. It has also forced these families to pay more for childcare, food and other expenses the woman could have saved before.
Letting women into the workforce as equal to men has done nothing for families and in actuality has just made it harder for families. This gets even worse when you factor in hypergamy, which is the tendency for women to find men with higher wealth/income/power/reputation to them as more attractive. This is a proven phenomenon at an academic level which means women with good paying jobs are on average marrying men with better paying jobs, thereby taking the fewer men with good paying jobs out of the market and making it harder for the average family, while now you have more power families (earning tons of money). This has made it harder though for men and women to find partners because there's just less suitable men for women to find. When women focused on family instead of career, a lot more men were attractive to women from a hypergamous perspective.
The solution to the problem is to teach women that it's okay to value femininity and nurturing a family. That women don't have to be like men and earn as much as men or even focus on a career if they don't want to. We also need to teach women proper moral behaviors and bring elegance, modesty and temperance back into the virtues we teach children. You'll naturally see many women in such a society assuming a more children focused role. Your GF likely if she were raised this way wouldn't have any issues taking time off her work, if she even pursued the same work. You likely would have higher paying job so if finances were the issue, they wouldn't be as readily an issue anymore.
The reason affluent women aren't having children has nothing to do with needing more money or government regulations and everything to do with the culture. Affluent women don't want to be seen as housewives and they over focus on their career to reflect their self-worth which are both twisted values that these women would likely not naturally have were it not for our society pushing its equality indoctrination.
I am generally against government intervention, but if there is one thing we should have the government doing it is funding programs to get successful people having kids.
Sure a child credit can get high-school dropouts who make more money having 6 kids over working reproducing, but we need a system that captures university grads and high skill workers.
My girlfriend for instance loves her work and wants to have two kids, but she is very hesitant for three given the amount of time she would have to take off of work.
Part of that are her expectations for her career, but part of that is also that straight up taking time off of work to raise kids even when paid does impact career.
I wonder if Covid and the shift to working from home can help here.
I disagree with you on this. The problem is teaching women to value careers over children. No woman should be hesitant to take time off work for having children because no woman should value her career so highly. The root problem in the first place is the government's interventions in forcing the narrative at a social level in government policies and education that women should be equal to men at the work place. Some women should perhaps but most people should prefer to nurture their children while the man provides for her.
I can't remember who said this but I heard a quote: "In the 60s we had a bunch of tomboys masquerading as housewives. Now we have a bunch of housewives masquerading as tomboys.
If we stopped trying to push equality and instead let women embrace both their femininity and their nurturing desire by removing all the social propaganda and government policies that push women into the provider role against their nature, you would have much higher paying jobs available for men because men wouldn't be competing with women for them as much.
The irony about men and women having equal roles in the workforce with equal pay is that this hasn't improved median family incomes.That's because when mostly only men dominated the top 50% of jobs while women dominated the bottom 50% of jobs, when a man and women combined to form a household, their combined income would be about the same as two median income individuals combining together today since today men and women compete with each other equally so men have lower salaries on average than they did before while women have higher. It equals out in the end. A major difference though is that now women don't have the time, the energy or the freedom to raise children like they would have in their lower strata jobs. It has also forced these families to pay more for childcare, food and other expenses the woman could have saved before.
Letting women into the workforce as equal to men has done nothing for families and in actuality has just made it harder for families. This gets even worse when you factor in hypergamy, which is the tendency for women to find men with higher wealth/income/power/reputation to them as more attractive. This is a proven phenomenon at an academic level which means women with good paying jobs are on average marrying men with better paying jobs, thereby taking the fewer men with good paying jobs out of the market and making it harder for the average family, while now you have more power families (earning tons of money). This has made it harder though for men and women to find partners because there's just less suitable men for women to find. When women focused on family instead of career, a lot more men were attractive to women from a hypergamous perspective.
The solution to the problem is to teach women that it's okay to value femininity and nurturing a family. That women don't have to be like men and earn as much as men or even focus on a career if they don't want to. We also need to teach women proper moral behaviors and bring elegance, modesty and temperance back into the virtues we teach children. You'll naturally see many women in such a society assuming a more children focused role. Your GF likely if she were raised this way wouldn't have any issues taking time off her work, if she even pursued the same work. You likely would have higher paying job so if finances were the issue, they wouldn't be as readily an issue anymore.
The reason affluent women aren't having children has nothing to do with needing more money or government regulations and everything to do with the culture. Affluent women don't want to be seen as housewives and they over focus on their career to reflect their self-worth which are both twisted values that these women would likely not naturally have were it not for our society pushing its equality indoctrination.