I quite agree, but there are some considerations.
1) Children raised by single parents are brought up in a “survival” instead of a “success” mode, so they are 60% more likely to become criminal offenders.
2) When a country reaches an economic plateau unique to them, the number of children per family drops to just 2.1 to 2.3. While government or culture cannot increase this birthrate, by increasing the degree of difficulty and expectations on parents, they can substantially lower it even further.
3) Student loans have become a demographic disaster in America, by upsetting the reproductive timetable of college graduates. While their parents would have graduated poor, from that point, their earnings, less taxes, would be theirs, so they were comfortable in getting married, having children, and mortgaging a home in their prime years for doing so. Graduating deeply in debt can delay this process outside of its effective window, making it much harder.
4) Redemption may exist in organizations like Quiverfull, that communally encourage large families. While currently limited to just a single Evangelical Protestant line, other religious sects should be encouraged to follow suit, for both religious and patriotic reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull
Good points.
“While government or culture cannot increase this birthrate, by increasing the degree of difficulty and expectations on parents, they can substantially lower it even further.”
The strangest thing is that while the policies suppress the native birth rate, the borders are flung open for newcomers. As though they want population (to keep the whole pyramid-scheme service economy moving), but they don’t want them when they aren’t consumers/workers (as infants).
“Graduating deeply in debt can delay this process outside of its effective window, making it much harder.”
The small number of young people I know don’t have this debt because NJ is ground zero for the importing of foreigners to take the jobs anyway; a lot of young people in these areas don’t waste the time/money on college, and look to trades instead.