B1rd wrote:
Jellyblob56 wrote:
You want to know where the problem lies?
Single mothers. Case closed.
They're all destined for failure. Single mothers pumping out kids left and right. Disgusting people. Selfish.
Indeed single mothers are a big problem for all races. And it is caused by the welfare state, you couldn't have single mothers if you didn't have the state acting as the father by giving them money.
The real problem solver is having a comprehensive and easily accessible daycare system that lets single mothers work over the day to support their family.
Paradoxically, having the state withdraw any sort of support for single mothers doesn't exactly decrease their number - it just increases their overall misery. If you want to decrease birth rates, educating people is the way to go, and trying to make them become a part of the working society. In any case, I agree that just throwing money at people is the wrong way to go.
Look at the nordic countries systems: They do a lot to support parents, but they don't do it in a way that supports laziness. Finland has 18 weeks of paid maternity leave, but most people don't even use that much and start working again sooner, because the children are so well taken care of with Finland's daycare system. It's impressing what a country can achieve when it takes care of its citizens, instead of just letting them be on their own.
It truly is a paradox. Finland, one of the countries with the arguably best support structures for mothers, is also one of the countries with the lowest birth-rates. If you want to lower the birth rates for single mothers, what you need to do is start taking care of them, not the opposite. Give them an incentive to return to work, give them a possibility to leave their child off at a daycare. If they can focus on a career like that, despite being a single-mother, the chance of them having a second child will drop significantly.