How do countries around the world, encourage marriage and family life?
How do we encourage young people, both men and women, to look at marriage and family as important life goals?
And how do we do this, when so many clearly are opting out of that?
And particularly for young women, who are working towards education and career goals in their 20s and into their 30s, if they do end up having children, their having delayed having children means they will have fewer children in their lives, than if they had different life goals.
I’m no expert on this, but it seems to me that high taxes play a part. Back in the 1950s dad went to work while mom stayed home and raised the kids. And it didn’t matter much if dad was white collar or blue collar. His salary alone was sufficient.
Now both parents work. Sure, maybe they’re greedy for expensive toys. But also maybe taxes are taking too big a bite out of dad’s salary.
“How do countries around the world, encourage marriage and family life?”
As I’ve noted before, the problem is the WOMEN, and it’s not that the women are bad or selfish, but rather they’re making rational choices, based on the conditions in which they live.
Before the Sexual Revolution, women had VERY FEW options to ‘leave the house’. They could be nurses, elementary school teachers, secretaries and a few other jobs. College was a rare thing for them and so they could hang out in the house and do nothing, or they could produce. So they produced.
So, now there are two options for Western countries: Either turn back the clock to the pre-Sexual Revolution days, or make having kids a competitive career choice, and that means money, big money, for having kids.
Otherwise, then yes, it’s over for Western society.