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Japan's seriously declining birth rate / population has resulted in a variety of new policies to encourage larger birth rates: a family with 3 children gets free education, for all , through college; flights within Japan the 3rd child flies free; and significant medical care cost reductions for the 3 kids.

We have that here, Pell grants, spirit airlines, medicaid

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Posted by El Segundo Guy

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Posted on 5/20/26 at 1:28 pm to GoCrazyAuburn

That will have to get figured out. My grandpa had 9 brothers and sisters because they farmed a lot of land in western Illinois in the early 1900s with no machinery and just 2 draft horses.

Now that can be farmed by 1 or 2 people.

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Posted by Penrod

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Posted on 5/20/26 at 2:55 pm to SallysHuman

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The declining birthrates are of the producers

Actually maybe not true. The recent trend has some strange reductions in lower socio-economic births. It’s too soon to know if this is a blip, but black births per woman, which was 2.4 as recently as 1990, has dropped below the whites level of 1.57. Both are trending down, but the black birth rate is declining faster.

There is an emerging trend of higher income people having more children. This trend would need to persist for a few years for your statement to become false, though.

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Posted by Missouri Waltz

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Posted on 5/20/26 at 3:28 pm to weagle1999

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The affluent couple without kids is a drain while a welfare queen with 8 spawn contributing to society?

If you want your culture and civilization to survive then that is how it works.

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Posted by weagle1999

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Posted on 5/20/26 at 3:32 pm to Penrod

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Actually maybe not true. The recent trend has some strange reductions in lower socio-economic births. It’s too soon to know if this is a blip, but black births per woman, which was 2.4 as recently as 1990, has dropped below the whites level of 1.57. Both are trending down, but the black birth rate is declining faster. There is an emerging trend of higher income people having more children. This trend would need to persist for a few years for your statement to become false, though.

This is all very interesting.

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