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Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 1 day agoI’m literally going to financially reward my wife for taking time off work in order to take care of our kid.
Parenting is labour. When you’re parenting, you can’t be doing a different job.
My wife’s parents in Indonesia don’t have a pension much. It’s barely anything. Her mom just gets money from my wife and her 2 sisters.
That’s how it used to be for a long time, pension is relatively new.
So in the vast majority of history, parents always were financially rewarded for having children.
Median age in Indonesia is 30, while in Belgium it’s 42. While we’re far wealthier in resources. People just stopped having children because it wasn’t necessary anymore.
We can’t act like this isn’t a problem, unless the people that willingly caused the aging population issue take full responsibility and go through hardships in order to help the society battle a period of low work force.
Allero@lemmy.today 1 day ago
That’s you, but it should be on the state level so that every parent is given everything to make parenthood go smooth.
People got used to comfort and are not willing to sacrifice their standards of living for having children, especially through a recession. Make them feel secure about their present and future - and birth rates will grow.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Aight, I agree it’s better to give positive help at one group instead of trying to punish the other.