What things could Singapore change to fix their birth rates? Empirically, nothing that any country is trying is working.

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PorciiVorbesc 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>nothing that any country is trying is working.

Because most countries aren't actually trying anything nor can the government do much in that regard when the issues are cultural and emotional.

The low-birthrate couples who can't/don't want kids aren't suddenly gonna want them if you give them 3 months of paid maternity leave and a monthly stipend or other such welfare perks.

And those who do have kids because of government welfare perks, were having kids anyway, they're now incentivized to have even more.

	▲	nemomarx an hour ago \| parent [-]
		3 months of leave or a small welfare payment are not sufficiently compelling alternatives to a career. Pay them at the level of a career and see if that changes the numbers - I feel like at least some people would be interested in that. (Say, median national income? Spitballing here) The countries that do try seem to fall short of actually replacing even a few years of serious career work and offer no way to go back to that career after taking care of children for a while, so you just need to do that.

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Der_Einzige 2 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Importing lots of white dudes. WMAF literally is extremely pro-natalist (massively higher WMAF babies than other pairings per-capita):

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/1s184vi/cdc_da...

Unironically Mao/Nixon and Henry Kissenger almost put us into a hilarious world where we (the USA) would have "imported" ~10 million Chinese women. Mao unironically proposed this:

"Chairman Mao: (Laughing) Those are honest words.

Dr. Kissinger: This is our position.

Chairman Mao: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million. (Laughter, particularly among the women.)

Dr. Kissinger: The Chairman is improving his offer.

Chairman Mao: By doing so we can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children and our children are too many. (Laughter)

[Page 132] Dr. Kissinger: It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it."

- https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v18...