A RADICAL PROPOSAL TO ADDRESS THE BABY BUST: Is the solution a “fertility dividend” that makes a portion of a person’s Social Security benefit dependent on each of their offspring’s earnings?
I wrote this piece, The Parent Trap, a while back on how society has raised the costs, and lowered the return, on parenting with predictable effect.
Related, and sad: The 40-year-old Reversion. “These women are the men their mothers divorced.”