nope I am JHH
artist grin

and I was just inferring that people should think twice
of the true financial costing of having a child, at least
here in australia, and probably anywhere for that matter

I was certainly NOT inferring of financial carrots, or bribery..grin

just a realisation that $15,000 a year for each baby, is a reality
costing.....
and that do young people adjust to their earnings as to
whether they can afford a child....

as far as I have seen, the social costs of living under this amount for each child, is enormous

JHH

Perhaps everyone who reaches the age of 50 without having produced any sprogs should be paid a handsome reward for their part in addressing the curse of overpopulation (:<{|)

About quarter of the cost of rearing one child to the age of 18 would be sufficient. That would be something like $100 000.

i believe oz should have a population under 10,00,000. so we all have enough water to drink, bathe- and preserve the native wildlife.

at whatever population, births and deaths should be equal. so we either import people, or raise our own in a responsible, planned way. a combination of birth licenses and bonuses would do it.

raising children should be a profession. any young woman can launch a baby with just a few minutes help. but she should put it into a professional, trained and licensed mother's hands shortly after birth.

the support of children should be a social responsibility. children should not be dependent on the luck of biological parents. result: a fair, humane society with everyone able to access educational and health resources while preparing to join australian adult society.

DEMOS I don’t think we need any licences, bonuses or anti-natalist incentives.

All we need is for immigration to be knocked on the head, or at least cut down to net zero (equal to emigration).

Then we would be sitting pretty with respect to the population factor. With zero net immigration the national population would continue to slowly increase for a quite a while – about three decades actually. But I could live with that, just as long as we were heading towards a stable population that would not exceed ~24million.

Our current fertility rate should be applauded and treasured. There is no reason why we should strive to either increase or decrease it.

Let’s have as few regulations as possible and hence as much freedom over the whole business as possible.

And I can’t see any reason why some people couldn’t have large families for as long as the national fertility rate remains roughly where it is – a bit below replacement level.

However, as I am childless and approaching 50, a $100 000 lump sum payment would be nice. And I reckon I deserve it ! (;>)

As fas as parenting ability goes, I don’t think you could justify taking a child away from a woman / couple that appeared to be lacking in parenting skills, unless the circumstances were quite grave.

It is much more important for the right sorts of support mechanisms to be in place to help them to quickly become good parents.

deary me...
having a giggle and laughing here

seriously though, children are important, precious,
and deserve the basic rights of,

water,
food,
clothing,
shelter

and not to be emotionally, verbally and or CORPORAL punishmented grin..

not just here, but world wide......

just a wee thought....

at $A15,000 a year for every child financially...

here in australia one can probably only afford to have one child
on a $A50,000 a year earning capacity

as mum and dad need $A15,000 a year for basic needs too

this does not include insurances, private schools and so on

our high school students need to do the maths.... ?

oh and while I am at it

poor old school teachers are becoming defacto dads and mums ?

that will cut the population of teachers down fast....

one should bear some consideration for them......

school is for basics, reading, writing and arithmetic..grin

JHH