Yes, please. I am so angry when I hear how my husbands female co-workers have been promoted over him when they have less education, been with the company a shorter time and have demonstrated less knowledge and ability within his work team, have volunteered less of their time to bettering the department and have had greater and more frequent periods of unavailability. Only the women are promoted.
Just another opinion.... Men don't respect women. If they did only fans would be broke.... 20 billion profit this year . Pretty sure most women are NOT paying to see naked lassies. Men are walking hypocrits. Self mastery equals self respect not being born one sex or another. Unfortunately motherhood equals poverty. Men are unreliable and men are rarely left holding the baby. The amount of Men who whine about single mothers, women with daddy issues, many men refusing to look after the children they do create is astounding. These are the same men paying only fans , creating girls with daddy issues by being non present dads and creating single mothers by their behaviour. Men DO NOT hold other men accountable for their bad behaviour they only hold women to account saying they caused the behaviour😂..... never themselves ..... How many women do you know who have 2nd families .....😂 Most women I know can't be bothered dealing with men. They're just enjoying their freedom, peace, travel, career, friendships, houses staying clean, pet dog and cats. 😊
I fully expect universal childcare to be a total disaster for those children's development and long term family cohesion. Babies and toddlers need mothers not caretakers.
As an early childhood educator, I wholeheartedly agree. Having worked across many centres, the horrors I’ve seen not only put me off working in the sector, but put me off ever putting my own child in care.
@@rvzillyI'am like you. I got fired from my job because i took my 3 month old baby with me, and they wanted for me to let him wait when he was crying for his 'own' teacher.😅 I'am at home with uninployment befite. To be honest i feel like i'am the winner here
Putting children under the age of three causes permanent emotional damage. Children younger get zero benifit from socialising with their peers. They experience abandonment , not just when their parents leave, but every time staff changes. I think the problem is that universal childcare is pushed by women with exciting careers and can afford nannies. But most women just have jobs and would prefer to be with their children of they could afford to.
@grannyannie2948 okay so are you volunteering to watch these children, or or you volunteering to pay for their rent and food? I think the answer is obvious that most people want to stay home with their kids but then how do you afford life? Government and companies need to help parents do that, it's not the parents fault that they have to work to feed their families.
If you live in America, yes its getting to shity, if you only look at the hospital bill, this American baby is already born into a family with debt 😢Europe still has hope.
@@amazingjason455 that's rubbish, my grandfather worked as a factory worker, he worked reasonable hours and had a long retirement. he earned enough to raise a family of 4 comfortably (with a stay at home wife) Modern society has gone backwards, nobody can afford to raise a family anymore
The choice to have children or the number of children has become economic for many. Housing, cost of living, job security, study debt are all influencing factors. The answer is simple, fix the economic and housing unaffordibilty problems in the country and you’ll see an increase in birth rates. Most mothers (and fathers too) would love to be home raising their children. The time goes quickly but unfortunately most mothers (and or fathers) have no choice but to both work.
Housing wouldn't be expensive if government stopped immigration. It's that easy. In the 70s we had affordable family housing on 1/4 acre blocks, commutable to cities. We have had below replacement births since then. If not for immigration we would have enough affordable housing without even building any more houses.
Why can't the business world be more open to part time rather than full time positions? I'm dedicated to taking care of my family, not to replacing my family with a job.
Terrible! Not nearly long enough. This panel needed to go to 5 hours longer lol. Thank you to all of your work. It has personally changed my life and how I do things in a big way 🙏🏼
Back in the 1950s, the USA had a high birth rate, and people say they wish to bring it back. However, it had a few things economists don't want to bring back. 1. None of that houses as investment vehicles bullshit. 4 years of a job was able to buy one. 2. You got a job with an HS diploma and had upward mobility if you did it right. In the modern cyberpunk corpo, the quiet quitter and go getter are always on the verge of being kicked off the corporate ladder. The motivation to work harder is not there. Bigshots demand we work as if it does exist. 3. Very few people coming in. Many so called "Conservatives" these days just want more people coming in, and make excuses. We all know it is part of the economy that favors the 1% over the masses.
As a sole breadwinner with my wife staying home to look after the family and homeschool our kids (just like old times), the only thing I'd like the government to do for me is to tax me as if I am a family man, and not as a single man. I don't care about the BS family tax benefits, since I make too much money to get that anyway, but perhaps tax me as if both my wife and I are working (because we both do, and work very hard) and each make 50% of my gross income.
Congratulations, this is the best comment I have read so far. My children have all grown up and I have to say I was unaware that when only one parent is working they are still taxed as a single. It’s totally disgusting.
What a waste of time, they identified the issues and offered no solutions. Seriously, " have more children" these people are so out of touch. How is a family supposed to have a child if they cannot survive on one salary in this economy. My wife and I are on the median Australian salary and if one of us stops working guess what, we're homeless!
These people will probably make arguments about how people in mud hud squatted out 5 kids. It never bothered to ask whether anybody wanted them or cared about them.
I’m in Canada and that’s literally our situation too. We have decent jobs and still can’t make it and go to food banks. When I hear someone say “just have one more child!” I literally want to scream, they just don’t get it
The implication here is that society has been sliding backwards over the last 60 years. Who would have thought that the tremendous progress in technology and modern conveniences would lead to a lower standard of living ? Could it be due to our value system changes over 60 years ? Everyone of us has to think about making our world a little better, which includes which public policies we vote for . The path we are currently on will lead to a Muslim dominated world and/or extinction.
I would not have wanted to be paid to be a stay home mother but rather would have preferred that my husband was taxed as a family man, which was once the case. Are children expensive ? Only if you want it to be so. Our mortgage was expensive no matter how many people lived in the house. I am quietly pleased that the people refusing to have children now will also be those for whom there will be few workers to give them a pension !
38 year old woman from Canada, pregnant with her first child. I currently make 110K a year, when I go on maternity leave for 1.5 year, Employment Insurance will pay me 30k a year before tax. It will barely cover rent. And then I have to send my child to daycare before they're even 1.5 years old so I can work. I waited all this time even though I love kids! And still things are going to be rough. Most of my family members live elsewhere or have passed away.
Congratulations on your baby. I hope you both have a beautiful life. I'm sorry things are so tight financially. Your wadge should be enough to support you but sadly it's not in this day and age. (I'm in a similar boat at 38) I hope and pray you find a community to get alongside you and support you and encourage you. Wishing you all the best on life's most beautiful and enriching adventure -parenthood.
If you look to the Scandinavian and Nordic countries, things are doing pretty well. Sadly, we tend to ignore these countries that constantly hit the top ten in almost every positive measure. It's as if they are an inconvenient truth undermining particularly ideological perspectives.
Why when people talk about cutting government spending is always in relation to social services expenditure and never about defence and weapon purchase expenditure or forgone revenue from corporate subsidies?
Goodness gracious me, just support mothers to stay home and raise their families. NO NEED TO CONVINCE ANY POLITICAL PARTY TO ADOPT A PARTICULAR VIEW That will never happen just do it. Stick your systems somewhere else where they don't fit. YOU ARE THE LEADERS WHO ALLOWED ALL THIS TO HAPPEN.
Bureaucrats have brought us here, western and developing nations alike, where fertility rates are below replacement. No ARC bureaucrats will be able to fix this. What happened to the parable of Jesus and the young rich man? Affluence and materialism is making us more and more individualistic, is tearing us apart. Unless we make it cool again to be poor, grateful, kind, and humble, nothing else can bring us together. Let mothers stay at home and take care of the family and the community. Mother=family=community=matriarchy. Let father provide, protect, and lead. Father=culture=civilisation=patriarchy.
Mothers should be paid a basic livable wage directly into their own accounts and should have health insurance and retirement fund benefits. Otherwise it is a raw deal for stay at home mothers. They become vulnerable to abuse and anger and unpleasantness. Women should be able to choose the number of children and the gap between pregnancies. 5 years min gap will be good for both the mother and child.
O no were truly stuck this time. With tech there is way better shit to do then hang out and let some women or government stop me and force babys on me. On top of having lived at a time we're being white and male just was not the thing to be.
Whether we agree or not children are our sole purpose on this earth. Nothing is more rewarding and satisfying watching them grow. Sure, Australia isn't the country I remember 25-30 years ago but it's still a dam sight better than many other countries to call home. Government needs to be heavily reduced in size and more 'normal' everyday people should fill the ranks in Canberra to get things moving in the right direction.
Half baked idea - Take all the tax payer funding for child care subsidy, over $13b at a rough estimate given so many supplementary costs running the CCS system. Now break that up, 1.2 mil families get about 10k a year, that funds one of the parents to stay at home with children under primary school age. Schools fund before and after care programs. Does this impact a families ability to earn a higher joint income? Well yes but then we get into the argument, did you have a child for your own status or for the child to be raised in a family environment. The studies are clear, or do they deny the science? It will encourage families to remain together and people will soon realise your career doesn't start until mid to late 20s for most, plenty of time to have a child and have that wondrous career in a lifetime. Again the argument, is having a child for you to tick a goal or to raise a child into a healthy individual.
In 1970 men earned 40% more than women. That was when the birth rate was above replacement level. So men earned more so they could support their family. Women typically look for men who make more than they do. As the pay gap closes women say they are having trouble finding a man who make more than they do. So is the pay gap for single people real or not? Also in 1972 the pill was placed on the PBS. There are alot of issues affecting child birth stats and they don't all relate to child care, the cost of living or the pay gap. But what would these 3 fossils know they are only looking at data and economic modelling.
The university down the street from me has a women's business center. Amazon has preferential treatment for women owned businesses. the school I attended has special scholarships for women. women are eligible for no bid contracts that men are not eligible for. google has a women's startup accelerator. women can join the police, the military or firefighting with lowered standards. women in the aggregate are net tax recipients, men are net tax payers. men are forced to serve in the selective service in order to vote, but women are exempt from the draft. there are a lot more men than women who are homeless but there is no effort to equalize that. the average man pays anywhere between 25 to 65 percent of his income to pay for social entitlements, which is more than serfs were made to pay during feudalism. Social security and medicare are insanely bad investments for men both because men pay more in taxes and don't live as long. women complain about the pay gap but fail to note that men are much more likely to be injured on the job.
@@hedgefundphilYES!!! Adding: the suicide rate for men is 4 times higher than women (CDC, 2022). It’s become evident how there are so many incentives and programs for women. People will fight for women “equality” in places but not for men’s. We need to start lifting up men. Give men the grant money, give men the scholarships, give men the positions on boards and commissions. Let’s recognize that men keep society functional. As a woman I can say, women need men. The women who say otherwise probably need therapy.
And then in 1973 multiculturalism was introduced. In 1975 "no fault divorce" was introduced. In the 70s and early 80s the shot gun wedding was still a thing, today this situation ussually ends in abortion. Lazy governments prefer to turn to mass immigration to replace the unborn, and this only makes things worse by suppressing wages and increasing house costs .
Politically a very difficult topic because both major parties (but especially the idealogical left) are desperate for control of the children's upbringing. The better option is to provide enormous income tax breaks for those who have 3+ children to the point where a good standard of living can be had on 1 income. Socially make it desirable to be a mother of many children as well.
What they really mean is . That after Australia being in the Hands of Foreign Corporate psychopaths, for many Decades now. Their Herd of Humans (vastly becoming now Third World ). Needs to Stop Breeding ...
Ya like when that toll road payed for its self after 4 and 40 years latter with lots of toll inc. Its still a toll road. I have no ideal why people would ever think there taxes are never coming down. 16:13
In Hungary the govt wipes out your higher education debt when you have your fourth child. They have tax benefits and other financial incentives for women who have more than one baby.
Great discussion, with some points I'd never heard before particularly around childcare. I think nothing will change however while the political parties are effectively run by feminist ideals and can'tdebate effectively. Until society shifts to a family first focus, nothing will change. The family is the core of a society and culture. A society that puts family last won't survive in the long run.
@@belaad The first fundamental error of feminism is the belief that the desires of women are more important than the needs and entitlements of children.
@Anne-LiseH Women did exactly that for thousands of years while men hunted, worked in the fields and the mines, and fought in all of the wars. Then feminism came and taught women that children are a burden instead of a blessing and that the highest feminine ideals are selfishness and entitlement.
First there is a very high positive correlation between increased efficiency and increased mechanisation with the reduction in birth rates. I know you are left lobe dominant graduates but I assure you falling birth rates is not going to have any affect on productivity. If you want to improve our Western Society then encourage people to ensure at least one partner with the Northern European dominant genetic traits within their gene bank.
Besides, whatever productivity happens, only oligarchs will see any of the benefit. Assembly lines make more stuff with less people, yet somehow we all have less than we did 40 years ago.
Unfortunately, dysgenics happens. People with low IQs breed prolifically. In contrast, people with above average or high IQs have fewer children, if any.
Kamala Harris talks about making child care affordable (so that both father and mother can work obviously). Her policy is to do this by capping child care costs at 7% of that family income. Now I’m not sure of the logistics of this kind of policy change but I know one thing - it does not address the underlying issue of parents earning enough to care for their children OR the fathers earning enough so that mothers can take time off to raise babies. It baffles me that the US is willing to subsidize child care rather than paid time off for new mothers.
How can you take care off a baby if you are exhausted from working 8,9 hours? Then maby your baby get awake in the night for some reason. You will do it ofcourse That does not sound healthy.
@@grannyannie2948 correct. I’m American. It depends on your employer I guess but most Americans only get 12 weeks under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which is hardly any time at all!
@@rinareyes1966 I've heard horror stories of women going back to work two weeks after delivery in your country. Three months is better than that, Australian women get five months which isn't great either.
The childcare problem and the birth rate problem would both be fixed by mandating creches and playrooms in every office, and mandating that parents have time to care for their children while at work. At present kids are nearly invisible in the lives of non-parent young adults. Seeing kids every day will make it more likely that they have their own. But of course that will never happen, because muh profits.
A luxury belief that only helps corporate workers. What about the women who scan groceries or clean toilets just to keep a roof over the family's head? Where will their kids go ? I do agree young people need to see children more often though.
@@gregvanpaassen It would in reality make women unemployable. I think mothers as a group just need to refuse to work. Initially it will cause poverty. But government would need to change to deal with a different status quo
Luke 12:25-26 - _"And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?"_ - Jesus
If only people could just make anixiety go away by being rational or reading stuff. Unless someone actually has the tool which "Makes emotion the slave of reason" then forget it.
i think its all in vain. Our culture has shifted towards self gratification. This is at odds with parenthood which is self sacrifice. Nothing will help but the return to loving your neighbor as thyself.
Perhaps it's that way for you. Most parents I'll say that it can be hard and frustrating. If you child had behavioral, health, or cognitive difficulties, or a combination of the above, your life would get infinitely harder.
Glad it is for you but that is exceptionally narrow view unfortunately your view is not for the majority regardless if you agree or not. Perhaps if you listened to others difficult path you'd spend less time judging and more time coming up with a solution to the problem. Anyone can judge. Much harder too listen to a different perspective and understand your reality is not everyone's ❤
Right at the start they talk about woman staying at home, last I heard it generally takes 2 parents to make a child so why are we talking like they only have a mother. Yes paid parental leave is a great thing, but again like the Nordic model why can't that be shared between both parents, also is that paid parental leave going to also contribute to the stay at home parents Super, is it going to keep their job skills and employability fresh....there is a reason that woman over 55 are the fastest growing demographic becoming homeless and it's well documented how much financially worse off in the long term woman who have children then those who don't. Again the idea of paid parental leave is great, but add to that so called traditional gender roles need to be abolished and the sacrifice mostly mums make to their job skills, long term employability, and retirement savings need to be shared equally between both parents, just as bringing in the income needs to be shared equally and doing the unpaid labour at home needs to be shared equally. Also as a not insignificant side note people can't afford kids, and 2 incomes are now essential to bring up a family but still woman continue to do the bulk of unpaid parental emotional and parenting labour. With all of that the question isn't why woman aren't having kids it's why would they.
@marty9011 your point being I've lived in Denmark and also the Nordic countries have some of the highest levels standards of living in the world. Those high taxes fund education including university level for everyone, healthcare for everyone, and yes very good paid parental leave for BOTH parents and yes government funded childcare with the highest rates of gender equality in the world. I don't see the problem.
The West have a wonderful country to learn from. Even with a war, Israel has the highest birth rate in the West. Modern Israeli women who have careers still want 3 children as well. The West has many things to learn from Israel. Not only how to defend western civilization, but also raising families and giving women equal rights and opportunities.
Erica Komisar brought up paid maternity leave, well… it’s a burden for an employer, who needs to pay for an employee that is absent, it’s not fair. More fair Solution would be to at least letting the employer deduct that cost from taxes or have women be able to work half an hour more each day and build up that time off work. If they dont use it for maternity leave, it could be paid off once contract is terminated or taken as extra vacation days.
why do we care about fairness to the employer? is the point of living to make the employer happy? Should our culture be set up to make employers happy? Is that what society is for? To raise and nurture and maintain happy employers ?
This is brilliant. Well done. Spot on. I do not want universal childcare.
Give the men in our families the respect again. Put them back in commercials. Respectful, responsible family dad's.
Yes, please. I am so angry when I hear how my husbands female co-workers have been promoted over him when they have less education, been with the company a shorter time and have demonstrated less knowledge and ability within his work team, have volunteered less of their time to bettering the department and have had greater and more frequent periods of unavailability. Only the women are promoted.
More importantly put Whyte men in commercials.
Make porn illegal and stop pfas chems on everything
Yes
Just another opinion....
Men don't respect women. If they did only fans would be broke.... 20 billion profit this year . Pretty sure most women are NOT paying to see naked lassies. Men are walking hypocrits. Self mastery equals self respect not being born one sex or another. Unfortunately motherhood equals poverty. Men are unreliable and men are rarely left holding the baby.
The amount of Men who whine about single mothers, women with daddy issues, many men refusing to look after the children they do create is astounding. These are the same men paying only fans , creating girls with daddy issues by being non present dads and creating single mothers by their behaviour.
Men DO NOT hold other men accountable for their bad behaviour they only hold women to account saying they caused the behaviour😂..... never themselves .....
How many women do you know who have 2nd families .....😂
Most women I know can't be bothered dealing with men.
They're just enjoying their freedom, peace, travel, career, friendships, houses staying clean, pet dog and cats.
😊
I fully expect universal childcare to be a total disaster for those children's development and long term family cohesion. Babies and toddlers need mothers not caretakers.
As an early childhood educator, I wholeheartedly agree. Having worked across many centres, the horrors I’ve seen not only put me off working in the sector, but put me off ever putting my own child in care.
Thanks for the insightful comment, so now what the heck are modern parents supposed to do about it?
@@rvzillyI'am like you. I got fired from my job because i took my 3 month old baby with me, and they wanted for me to let him wait when he was crying for his 'own' teacher.😅
I'am at home with uninployment befite. To be honest i feel like i'am the winner here
Putting children under the age of three causes permanent emotional damage. Children younger get zero benifit from socialising with their peers. They experience abandonment , not just when their parents leave, but every time staff changes. I think the problem is that universal childcare is pushed by women with exciting careers and can afford nannies. But most women just have jobs and would prefer to be with their children of they could afford to.
@grannyannie2948 okay so are you volunteering to watch these children, or or you volunteering to pay for their rent and food? I think the answer is obvious that most people want to stay home with their kids but then how do you afford life? Government and companies need to help parents do that, it's not the parents fault that they have to work to feed their families.
My adult children say they do not want to bring children into this evil world, where Governments have over reached into the family dynamics
If only they listened to Jordan Peterson.
If you live in America, yes its getting to shity, if you only look at the hospital bill, this American baby is already born into a family with debt 😢Europe still has hope.
They never heard of Jesus and the times he was born in 😉?
Sound like your children Lost hope, and that is a defeat
@@Margriet101This is in Australia and we have free maternity hospitals.
What are they doing to fight the government on this issue?
Everything is too expensive, and everyone is underpaid. Not good conditions for raising families
Our ancestors had to work many more hours to afford basic necessities. The more people, the more abundance.
@@amazingjason455 that's rubbish, my grandfather worked as a factory worker, he worked reasonable hours and had a long retirement. he earned enough to raise a family of 4 comfortably (with a stay at home wife)
Modern society has gone backwards, nobody can afford to raise a family anymore
We are on average 7 times wealthier than our great grandparents.
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The truth.
The choice to have children or the number of children has become economic for many. Housing, cost of living, job security, study debt are all influencing factors. The answer is simple, fix the economic and housing unaffordibilty problems in the country and you’ll see an increase in birth rates. Most mothers (and fathers too) would love to be home raising their children. The time goes quickly but unfortunately most mothers (and or fathers) have no choice but to both work.
Paying of a mortgage seems imposable this days in you dont have rich parents
Housing wouldn't be expensive if government stopped immigration. It's that easy. In the 70s we had affordable family housing on 1/4 acre blocks, commutable to cities.
We have had below replacement births since then. If not for immigration we would have enough affordable housing without even building any more houses.
small government =happy citizens
Why can't the business world be more open to part time rather than full time positions? I'm dedicated to taking care of my family, not to replacing my family with a job.
Totally agree. We literally don’t have a society that supports procreating.
Because companies got greedier so they demand more efficiency and more free overtime which is harder to get from part time workers.
Terrible! Not nearly long enough. This panel needed to go to 5 hours longer lol.
Thank you to all of your work. It has personally changed my life and how I do things in a big way 🙏🏼
Brilliant.
Back in the 1950s, the USA had a high birth rate, and people say they wish to bring it back. However, it had a few things economists don't want to bring back.
1. None of that houses as investment vehicles bullshit. 4 years of a job was able to buy one.
2. You got a job with an HS diploma and had upward mobility if you did it right. In the modern cyberpunk corpo, the quiet quitter and go getter are always on the verge of being kicked off the corporate ladder. The motivation to work harder is not there. Bigshots demand we work as if it does exist.
3. Very few people coming in. Many so called "Conservatives" these days just want more people coming in, and make excuses. We all know it is part of the economy that favors the 1% over the masses.
As a sole breadwinner with my wife staying home to look after the family and homeschool our kids (just like old times), the only thing I'd like the government to do for me is to tax me as if I am a family man, and not as a single man. I don't care about the BS family tax benefits, since I make too much money to get that anyway, but perhaps tax me as if both my wife and I are working (because we both do, and work very hard) and each make 50% of my gross income.
YES
Having a stay at home wife used to be a tax deduction until the second half of the 80s.
Congratulations, this is the best comment I have read so far. My children have all grown up and I have to say I was unaware that when only one parent is working they are still taxed as a single. It’s totally disgusting.
Our family is in the same position. Doesn’t seem fair does it??
What a waste of time, they identified the issues and offered no solutions. Seriously, " have more children" these people are so out of touch. How is a family supposed to have a child if they cannot survive on one salary in this economy. My wife and I are on the median Australian salary and if one of us stops working guess what, we're homeless!
These people will probably make arguments about how people in mud hud squatted out 5 kids. It never bothered to ask whether anybody wanted them or cared about them.
I’m in Canada and that’s literally our situation too. We have decent jobs and still can’t make it and go to food banks. When I hear someone say “just have one more child!” I literally want to scream, they just don’t get it
The implication here is that society has been sliding backwards over the last 60 years. Who would have thought that the tremendous progress in technology and modern conveniences would lead to a lower standard of living ?
Could it be due to our value system changes over 60 years ?
Everyone of us has to think about making our world a little better, which includes which public policies we vote for .
The path we are currently on will lead to a Muslim dominated world and/or extinction.
It's no better in america.
@@mgkramer7112That's just it every time I vote I can vote for corpo America's person or I can vote for corpo America's person. End of story. 3:29
Great discussion. We have eight children;)
You’re so blessed!
@@martanieradka4675 Amen Martina.
I would not have wanted to be paid to be a stay home mother but rather would have preferred that my husband was taxed as a family man, which was once the case. Are children expensive ?
Only if you want it to be so. Our mortgage was expensive no matter how many people lived in the house. I am quietly pleased that the people refusing to have children now will
also be those for whom there will be few workers to give them a pension !
Masses don't expect a pension to show up for them, so they are living for themselves only.
38 year old woman from Canada, pregnant with her first child. I currently make 110K a year, when I go on maternity leave for 1.5 year, Employment Insurance will pay me 30k a year before tax. It will barely cover rent. And then I have to send my child to daycare before they're even 1.5 years old so I can work. I waited all this time even though I love kids! And still things are going to be rough. Most of my family members live elsewhere or have passed away.
Congratulations on your baby. I hope you both have a beautiful life. I'm sorry things are so tight financially. Your wadge should be enough to support you but sadly it's not in this day and age. (I'm in a similar boat at 38) I hope and pray you find a community to get alongside you and support you and encourage you. Wishing you all the best on life's most beautiful and enriching adventure -parenthood.
With what is happening in the rest of Western world has to do with World Economic Forum WEF. You should do some research on it
Japan, South Korea, SIngapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are eastern and yet on the bottom 10 list of birth rates.
And the UN
If you look to the Scandinavian and Nordic countries, things are doing pretty well. Sadly, we tend to ignore these countries that constantly hit the top ten in almost every positive measure. It's as if they are an inconvenient truth undermining particularly ideological perspectives.
Why when people talk about cutting government spending is always in relation to social services expenditure and never about defence and weapon purchase expenditure or forgone revenue from corporate subsidies?
Because they don't want to anger their paymasters, the war machine lobby.
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Goodness gracious me, just support mothers to stay home and raise their families.
NO NEED TO CONVINCE ANY POLITICAL PARTY TO ADOPT A PARTICULAR VIEW That will never happen just do it. Stick your systems somewhere else where they don't fit.
YOU ARE THE LEADERS WHO ALLOWED ALL THIS TO HAPPEN.
Bureaucrats have brought us here, western and developing nations alike, where fertility rates are below replacement. No ARC bureaucrats will be able to fix this.
What happened to the parable of Jesus and the young rich man? Affluence and materialism is making us more and more individualistic, is tearing us apart. Unless we make it cool again to be poor, grateful, kind, and humble, nothing else can bring us together.
Let mothers stay at home and take care of the family and the community. Mother=family=community=matriarchy.
Let father provide, protect, and lead. Father=culture=civilisation=patriarchy.
Mothers should be paid a basic livable wage directly into their own accounts and should have health insurance and retirement fund benefits. Otherwise it is a raw deal for stay at home mothers. They become vulnerable to abuse and anger and unpleasantness. Women should be able to choose the number of children and the gap between pregnancies. 5 years min gap will be good for both the mother and child.
The cyberpunk corpos are pushing "You will own nothing and be happy" and I don't see any happiness out of it.
O no were truly stuck this time. With tech there is way better shit to do then hang out and let some women or government stop me and force babys on me. On top of having lived at a time we're being white and male just was not the thing to be.
Whether we agree or not children are our sole purpose on this earth. Nothing is more rewarding and satisfying watching them grow. Sure, Australia isn't the country I remember 25-30 years ago but it's still a dam sight better than many other countries to call home. Government needs to be heavily reduced in size and more 'normal' everyday people should fill the ranks in Canberra to get things moving in the right direction.
Our purpose is to be happy. For some happiness is in children. For many, it isn't. It is in- having freedom, money, good health and good friends.
@@Devi-pg4rj you're totally correct too mate! I was just voicing my opinion.
Half baked idea - Take all the tax payer funding for child care subsidy, over $13b at a rough estimate given so many supplementary costs running the CCS system. Now break that up, 1.2 mil families get about 10k a year, that funds one of the parents to stay at home with children under primary school age. Schools fund before and after care programs.
Does this impact a families ability to earn a higher joint income? Well yes but then we get into the argument, did you have a child for your own status or for the child to be raised in a family environment. The studies are clear, or do they deny the science?
It will encourage families to remain together and people will soon realise your career doesn't start until mid to late 20s for most, plenty of time to have a child and have that wondrous career in a lifetime. Again the argument, is having a child for you to tick a goal or to raise a child into a healthy individual.
Insulin resistance creating infertility. Sugar is the new smoking but maybe worse.
In 1970 men earned 40% more than women. That was when the birth rate was above replacement level. So men earned more so they could support their family. Women typically look for men who make more than they do. As the pay gap closes women say they are having trouble finding a man who make more than they do. So is the pay gap for single people real or not? Also in 1972 the pill was placed on the PBS. There are alot of issues affecting child birth stats and they don't all relate to child care, the cost of living or the pay gap. But what would these 3 fossils know they are only looking at data and economic modelling.
The university down the street from me has a women's business center. Amazon has preferential treatment for women owned businesses. the school I attended has special scholarships for women. women are eligible for no bid contracts that men are not eligible for. google has a women's startup accelerator. women can join the police, the military or firefighting with lowered standards. women in the aggregate are net tax recipients, men are net tax payers. men are forced to serve in the selective service in order to vote, but women are exempt from the draft. there are a lot more men than women who are homeless but there is no effort to equalize that. the average man pays anywhere between 25 to 65 percent of his income to pay for social entitlements, which is more than serfs were made to pay during feudalism. Social security and medicare are insanely bad investments for men both because men pay more in taxes and don't live as long. women complain about the pay gap but fail to note that men are much more likely to be injured on the job.
@@hedgefundphilYES!!! Adding: the suicide rate for men is 4 times higher than women (CDC, 2022). It’s become evident how there are so many incentives and programs for women. People will fight for women “equality” in places but not for men’s. We need to start lifting up men. Give men the grant money, give men the scholarships, give men the positions on boards and commissions. Let’s recognize that men keep society functional. As a woman I can say, women need men. The women who say otherwise probably need therapy.
And then in 1973 multiculturalism was introduced. In 1975 "no fault divorce" was introduced. In the 70s and early 80s the shot gun wedding was still a thing, today this situation ussually ends in abortion. Lazy governments prefer to turn to mass immigration to replace the unborn, and this only makes things worse by suppressing wages and increasing house costs .
Politically a very difficult topic because both major parties (but especially the idealogical left) are desperate for control of the children's upbringing.
The better option is to provide enormous income tax breaks for those who have 3+ children to the point where a good standard of living can be had on 1 income.
Socially make it desirable to be a mother of many children as well.
I often say these people want the birth rate to go up, so long as it also makes line go up on stonk market.
Children bad for the environment????? How about the people who SAY this? They are God's Gift to Humanity are they?????
What they really mean is . That after Australia being in the Hands of Foreign Corporate psychopaths, for many Decades now. Their Herd of Humans (vastly becoming now Third World ). Needs to Stop Breeding ...
Children raised correctly will be Earth’s gardeners.
Ya like when that toll road payed for its self after 4 and 40 years latter with lots of toll inc. Its still a toll road. I have no ideal why people would ever think there taxes are never coming down. 16:13
We need a vax free society and encouragement for home schooling and a robust middle class.
you are right. for a newborn why not vitD vitE vitK and so on
Yes, and the politicians don't want to do less.
I concur! :)
In Hungary the govt wipes out your higher education debt when you have your fourth child. They have tax benefits and other financial incentives for women who have more than one baby.
Great discussion, with some points I'd never heard before particularly around childcare. I think nothing will change however while the political parties are effectively run by feminist ideals and can'tdebate effectively. Until society shifts to a family first focus, nothing will change. The family is the core of a society and culture. A society that puts family last won't survive in the long run.
Feminism caused this. It is nice to see women working to fix it.
Then stay home for $0 pay and $0 retirement funded for 4 years.
No it was elitist women pushing their luxury beliefs onto society. The feminists were just the useful idiots doing their bidding.
Yes, women asking for equal pay and not to be trapped in the house for the entirely of their lives did cause it. I absolutely agree.
@@belaad The first fundamental error of feminism is the belief that the desires of women are more important than the needs and entitlements of children.
@Anne-LiseH Women did exactly that for thousands of years while men hunted, worked in the fields and the mines, and fought in all of the wars. Then feminism came and taught women that children are a burden instead of a blessing and that the highest feminine ideals are selfishness and entitlement.
Allow un vaccinated kids to get the child care rebate!!
Father's in family court . Hope you can avoid but unlikely
First there is a very high positive correlation between increased efficiency and increased mechanisation with the reduction in birth rates. I know you are left lobe dominant graduates but I assure you falling birth rates is not going to have any affect on productivity.
If you want to improve our Western Society then encourage people to ensure at least one partner with the Northern European dominant genetic traits within their gene bank.
Besides, whatever productivity happens, only oligarchs will see any of the benefit. Assembly lines make more stuff with less people, yet somehow we all have less than we did 40 years ago.
Unfortunately, dysgenics happens. People with low IQs breed prolifically. In contrast, people with above average or high IQs have fewer children, if any.
Kamala Harris talks about making child care affordable (so that both father and mother can work obviously). Her policy is to do this by capping child care costs at 7% of that family income. Now I’m not sure of the logistics of this kind of policy change but I know one thing - it does not address the underlying issue of parents earning enough to care for their children OR the fathers earning enough so that mothers can take time off to raise babies. It baffles me that the US is willing to subsidize child care rather than paid time off for new mothers.
How can you take care off a baby if you are exhausted from working 8,9 hours? Then maby your baby get awake in the night for some reason. You will do it ofcourse That does not sound healthy.
Also if you give money to the daycare centers in the money will just go to the investers
American women have told me they get no maternity leave
@@grannyannie2948 correct. I’m American. It depends on your employer I guess but most Americans only get 12 weeks under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which is hardly any time at all!
@@rinareyes1966 I've heard horror stories of women going back to work two weeks after delivery in your country. Three months is better than that, Australian women get five months which isn't great either.
The childcare problem and the birth rate problem would both be fixed by mandating creches and playrooms in every office, and mandating that parents have time to care for their children while at work. At present kids are nearly invisible in the lives of non-parent young adults. Seeing kids every day will make it more likely that they have their own.
But of course that will never happen, because muh profits.
A luxury belief that only helps corporate workers. What about the women who scan groceries or clean toilets just to keep a roof over the family's head? Where will their kids go ?
I do agree young people need to see children more often though.
that would be amazing
@@grannyannie2948 Good points. Not just offices, all workplaces.
@@gregvanpaassen It would in reality make women unemployable. I think mothers as a group just need to refuse to work. Initially it will cause poverty. But government would need to change to deal with a different status quo
Luke 12:25-26 - _"And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?"_ - Jesus
If only people could just make anixiety go away by being rational or reading stuff. Unless someone actually has the tool which "Makes emotion the slave of reason" then forget it.
i think its all in vain. Our culture has shifted towards self gratification. This is at odds with parenthood which is self sacrifice. Nothing will help but the return to loving your neighbor as thyself.
Perhaps we are doing a better job at realizing the silly fallacy of seeing other people as us. Other people are themselves, and we are ourselves.
People don't see the ROI on not being a jerk to the neighbor, so they become selfish.
Panel made mistake by presuming ppl got richer. American stats show most ppl got poorer last 30 years by around 15% considering inflation.
More neolib economics that saw what makes line go up and GDP go brr means people get richer. No. It means oligarchs get richer.
Raising children is fantastically rewarding. Raising children is NOT "hard and frustrating" !
It is rewarding for the people it is rewarding to. Some people get the reward, others don't.
For me its both
Perhaps it's that way for you. Most parents I'll say that it can be hard and frustrating. If you child had behavioral, health, or cognitive difficulties, or a combination of the above, your life would get infinitely harder.
@@proudatheist2042 : I'm glad my sons don't have you as a parent.
Glad it is for you but that is exceptionally narrow view unfortunately your view is not for the majority regardless if you agree or not. Perhaps if you listened to others difficult path you'd spend less time judging and more time coming up with a solution to the problem. Anyone can judge. Much harder too listen to a different perspective and understand your reality is not everyone's ❤
Right at the start they talk about woman staying at home, last I heard it generally takes 2 parents to make a child so why are we talking like they only have a mother. Yes paid parental leave is a great thing, but again like the Nordic model why can't that be shared between both parents, also is that paid parental leave going to also contribute to the stay at home parents Super, is it going to keep their job skills and employability fresh....there is a reason that woman over 55 are the fastest growing demographic becoming homeless and it's well documented how much financially worse off in the long term woman who have children then those who don't. Again the idea of paid parental leave is great, but add to that so called traditional gender roles need to be abolished and the sacrifice mostly mums make to their job skills, long term employability, and retirement savings need to be shared equally between both parents, just as bringing in the income needs to be shared equally and doing the unpaid labour at home needs to be shared equally. Also as a not insignificant side note people can't afford kids, and 2 incomes are now essential to bring up a family but still woman continue to do the bulk of unpaid parental emotional and parenting labour. With all of that the question isn't why woman aren't having kids it's why would they.
The Nordic model only works because of very high taxation.
@marty9011 your point being I've lived in Denmark and also the Nordic countries have some of the highest levels standards of living in the world. Those high taxes fund education including university level for everyone, healthcare for everyone, and yes very good paid parental leave for BOTH parents and yes government funded childcare with the highest rates of gender equality in the world. I don't see the problem.
Well done elite, not so elite now are you?
The West have a wonderful country to learn from. Even with a war, Israel has the highest birth rate in the West. Modern Israeli women who have careers still want 3 children as well. The West has many things to learn from Israel. Not only how to defend western civilization, but also raising families and giving women equal rights and opportunities.
I want to see what Israel has when it can't bum off American taxpayers or subvert churches.
How to ruin Palastin young live to let those wolf kids live you mean?
@@Margriet101re tard
Fine. I guess the USA should reject incoming people.
I love the "Open borders for Israel" crowd.
Erica Komisar brought up paid maternity leave, well… it’s a burden for an employer, who needs to pay for an employee that is absent, it’s not fair. More fair Solution would be to at least letting the employer deduct that cost from taxes or have women be able to work half an hour more each day and build up that time off work. If they dont use it for maternity leave, it could be paid off once contract is terminated or taken as extra vacation days.
why do we care about fairness to the employer? is the point of living to make the employer happy? Should our culture be set up to make employers happy? Is that what society is for? To raise and nurture and maintain happy employers ?
I’m saying, “Get married and have 8 children”!