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Map Shows Countries Paying People to Have Babies as Birth Rate Drops
Newsweek ^ | August 25, 2026 | Jenni Fink

Posted on 08/29/2026 3:40:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Governments around the world are increasingly offering cash payments, tax breaks, housing subsidies and childcare support in an effort to persuade citizens to have more children as birth rates fall and populations age.

Declining birth rates can strain a country's economy because there aren't enough people being born to support the aging population. That means greater strains on social programs like Social Security and Medicare in the United States since more and more people are using the programs, but not enough people are paying into them. Declining birth rates are a global problem, and a growing number of countries are rolling out increasingly generous pro-family incentives, ranging from direct payments for newborns to years of childcare assistance.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: prolife

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1 posted on 08/29/2026 3:40:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Isolate masturbate and you won’t procreate.


2 posted on 08/29/2026 3:41:35 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Shouldn’t the countries with lots of spare land and water lead the way? Guess that leaves out the catholic countries.


3 posted on 08/29/2026 3:43:19 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MinorityRepublican

I would be glad to assist if the Swedish Bikini Team would come to America.


4 posted on 08/29/2026 3:45:49 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: MinorityRepublican

Something is very wrong when any animal just stops procreating. Where in nature do you find this? You don’t. Yet humans have and it’s a symptom of a serious problem.


5 posted on 08/29/2026 3:48:11 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Data where a map doesn't really help. The list is:
Singapore
China
Japan
South Korea
Sweden
Finland
Estonia
United Arab Emirates
6 posted on 08/29/2026 3:48:28 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If the Islamic Republic government is in power in Iran when the war is over, we will have lost.)
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To: Morgana
Yet humans have and it’s a symptom of a serious problem.

The incentives are no longer there throughout the developed world.

7 posted on 08/29/2026 3:50:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The article right below this one is:

“Democrat Governor Wants To Remove ‘Mothers’ And ‘Pregnant Woman’ From State Health Code”


8 posted on 08/29/2026 3:51:02 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

I think you found the problem.


9 posted on 08/29/2026 3:53:01 PM PDT by Track9 (Liberal tears make me smile. Thank you DJT! ABM = anything but muslim )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

China reversed course on its obsession with birth control some decades ago with Singapore a very crowded place giving it up in the 1990’s that’s what comes to my mind first.

Russia well positioned with the description you just gave...


10 posted on 08/29/2026 4:00:22 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: Morgana

See my tagline for a big part of the problem.


11 posted on 08/29/2026 4:03:08 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Morgana

Morgana wrote: “Something is very wrong when any animal just stops procreating. Where in nature do you find this? You don’t. Yet humans have and it’s a symptom of a serious problem.”

It’s been noticed for some time that declining birth rates are driven by increases in life expectation and wealth. Any suggestions?


12 posted on 08/29/2026 4:07:21 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Track9

I think you found the problem.


It is definitely a large part of it. Pretending a woman is a costume that can be removed at will is pure stupidity. The vilifying of mothers and reducing babies to a “clump of cells” started a few decades ago and has only gotten worse in the past few years. Of course birth rates were going to start going down. The good news is that conservative women are having more babies than leftist women.


13 posted on 08/29/2026 4:22:46 PM PDT by CFW
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To: MinorityRepublican
GOPe imported workers with H visas and Democrats open the borders to illegals working green card scams. Yep, that'll depress wages and the indigenous birth rate fer shure.
14 posted on 08/29/2026 4:29:03 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Morgana

people are not animals. God said so. He knows best.

If at this time He allows that people have less kids, I would imagine the govt’s supplementing people to have kids may be out of line with Him.

I really don’t think from the little I understand of God of the Bible, that He wants kids coming into the world in test tubes and to be neglected by super busy parents, or worse subjected to all sorts of chemicals injected into them from birth through school years, or many of the other horrific things becoming more common like pretend genders leading to surgeries and all the mental abuse.

I highly doubt it’s God’s best plan for kids, or anyone.


15 posted on 08/29/2026 4:29:30 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Too much legal immigration caused depressed wages and then depressed birth rates but no mainstream Republican will admit it. They’d rather virtue signal.
16 posted on 08/29/2026 4:30:43 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Lower or eliminate taxes so two incomes are no longer necessary.

17 posted on 08/29/2026 4:31:08 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty)
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To: BitWielder1

Stop LEGAL immigration. Watch the birth rates soar.


18 posted on 08/29/2026 4:32:46 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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