5 Creative Ways Countries Tried to up Their Birth Rates

Mental Floss ^ | March 29, 2014 | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

[Slings and Arrows]

Re Russia: I wonder how many of those babies are named "Mohammed"?

[Slings and Arrows]

Misanthropes always get the last laugh.

[kingattax]

lock & load

[livius]

Russia has a hugely high abortion rate. Apparently they don’t see the contradiction.

[spokeshave]

...maybe Obamacare covers paid sex....as a therapy for example.....or perhaps to promote "race relations" or some such.

[knarf]

and all we had to do is read and obey ...

multiply and subdue the earth.

Guess what kind of incentives THAT benevolent leader has for the obedient.

[stormhill]

Guess what kind of incentives THAT benevolent leader has for the obedient.

Heard it's out of this world

[exDemMom]

Yotaro is a robot baby. Though he doesn’t exactly look like a real baby, he cries, sneezes, suffers that perpetually drippy nose that is instantly recognizable to any parent, giggles when tickled, and is calmed by his rattle. His creators are hoping that if he can spark some measure of parental emotion in the people who see him, maybe they’ll consider making a real baby. "A robot can't be human but it's great if this robot triggers human emotions, so humans want to have their own baby," said Hiroki Kunimura, the Yotaro project leader.

Or that could have the opposite effect. Robobaby is awfully close to uncanny valley territory, that place where things that are not human look too human, making them appear seriously creepy.

[Slings and Arrows]

Or it could make potential parents realize how much work a baby is, and have them opt for a cat instead.

[left that other site]

Paul Ehrlich is deeply saddened. LOL!

[Ransomed]

“Russia’s population has been shrinking since the 1990s, propelled by a low birth rate and high death rate (the high alcoholism rate may be a factor in that)...”

Or, you know, the ‘most grisly statistic the world has ever seen,’ a peak of around 280 abortions per 100 live births in the early 90s.

FReegards

[txrefugee]

Unfortunately, a cat can’t take care of you in your old age. There will be millions of Americans who will have no one to take care of them but the government. Lotsa luck with that…..

[NativeSon]

I have an idea that solve their population problems and our problems.

Step one, start building a very large bridge in Mexico...

[Jack Hydrazine]

America’s fertility rate was 1.89 as of 2011 which is below the minimum replacement level of 2.1.

[null and void]

2. South Korea: Lights Out

The birth rate in North Korea must be astronomical...

[Morgana]

Getting people to conceive and deliver these babies is the easy part.

Getting them to raise them is the hard part. What if they really don’t want the babies they have? The children will suffer.

It’s not about getting them pregnant it’s about changing their hearts towards children. That is going to be very hard.

[Rockpile]

Japan grew from 73 million people in 1940 to 128 million in 2010.
The country is the size of Montana.

Since Japan is so mountainous then the flatter more habitable areas have the people crammed together like sardines in a can.

The ONLY reason for the gooberment to want to keep the birth rate up is to maintain the level of tax slaves.

[Hoodat]

[martin_fierro]

“Cutting Taxes” — NEVER AN OPTION.

[RichInOC]

No word on whether action man Putin was going to see to the duties personally.

“Privyet! I am President Vladimir Putin and I am here to...”