Comments on: Paying People to Have Kids http://www.raising4boys.com/2006/05/24/paying-people-to-have-kids/ parenting tips, tricks and commentary Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:13:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: claire http://www.raising4boys.com/2006/05/24/paying-people-to-have-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-832 claire Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:27:14 +0000 http://www.raising4boys.com/2006/05/24/paying-people-to-have-kids/#comment-832 Interesting numbers. I've been thinking (and blogging) about this lately, too. <a href="http://tiredbuthappy.blogspot.com/2006/06/getting-paid-to-procreate.html" rel="nofollow">Getting paid to procreate?</a> Interesting numbers. I’ve been thinking (and blogging) about this lately, too.

Getting paid to procreate?

]]> By: jim http://www.raising4boys.com/2006/05/24/paying-people-to-have-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-610 jim Wed, 24 May 2006 13:33:16 +0000 http://www.raising4boys.com/2006/05/24/paying-people-to-have-kids/#comment-610 Population control has always been a touchy subject, it's simply the reverse of the one-child rule in China because of overpopulation. What's interesting and not often mentioned is that in some (if not all) EU nations there is disproportionately more financial support from the government when you have kids than when you don't. This is all funded by their high taxes over there but you get significant breaks (much more so than in the US) for children. While it's not meant to stimulate population growth and is geared more towards helping new families get started, it does have similar effects. Population control has always been a touchy subject, it’s simply the reverse of the one-child rule in China because of overpopulation.

What’s interesting and not often mentioned is that in some (if not all) EU nations there is disproportionately more financial support from the government when you have kids than when you don’t. This is all funded by their high taxes over there but you get significant breaks (much more so than in the US) for children. While it’s not meant to stimulate population growth and is geared more towards helping new families get started, it does have similar effects.

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