Paying People to Have Children

>population goes to zero.

Maybe, but I doubt it.

>A possible solution to the fertility problem that has not been tried yet is paying families a real lot of money — a can’t-ignore-it amount of money — to have children. Millions of dollars!

If you do a search on this: "children food insecurity usa" you might find we seam to have a problem feeding the ones we have. This could be part of the problem. We might like to break off some $$ for the kids, and maybe for housing and job training too.

As I get older, I become ever more sure that I do not want children. In younger days, I would have said it was more of a feeling, but the more I think about it, the more I can articulate reasons, many of them worldly/material, for that feeling. But ultimately I think it's because I've never been able to believe in a religion; there's just ultimately an end to me and any children that would follow. Interestingly, religiosity seems to be biggest correlate with fertility, but I wonder if demographers have any better ideas as to what is going on.