The birth rate has decreased, we hear all the time, and I always think about how we grew up – for girls “don’t get pregnant” and a lot of help to protect themselves.
For boys “don’t get your partner pregnant”, and a lot of help to protect themselves.
Early pregnancies were bad, you were a bad person if you had children early.
Then you were supposed to build a career before having children, and women were not supposed to stay at home with children.
It was preferable to have a house before having children as well, and you get less and less for your salary.
The solution to the demographic problem became immigration, and we had a huge peak in 2015, but we are still talking about the same problem since too few entered the workforce – so that didn’t work either.
Then, when you finally have children, it is extremely expensive with sports and everything children should have – not many have five children because they can’t afford it, and as a working family, you don’t get much additional support beyond child benefits.
Then came the “fulfill yourself and get divorced” wave – it was trendy to get divorced, and you were supposed to save in a bank account so you could get divorced.
Society has not made it particularly attractive for many to become parents, and apparently we need 3 children per family to prevent the population from decreasing.
And then divorce has been encouraged.
Instead of putting families with children on a pedestal, they are considered somewhat annoying in public spaces.
I have a couple of reactionary suggestions here –
-give working families a 25% tax reduction (on income tax) per child until they are 15 years old, I believe we would have families with four children faster than you can say pregnancy.
-give everyone who has a child 150,000 SEK in a birth gift.
-allow working parents, one parent at a time, to reduce to half-time with maintained salary until the children are 12 years old.
-give everyone who wants to engage in sports clubs as coaches the right to reduce their working hours to 75% with maintained salary.
-make preschool and school attractive and have different levels.
Expensive, you say, but having 900,000 unemployed is quite expensive too, they do not support themselves and thus cost money, and now that became somewhat of a consequence of trying to solve the problem with skewed demographics, right?
Or to speak plainly – the cost of crime against welfare systems and criminality, 150 billion SEK was apparently “significantly underestimated” according to some CEO recently.
Or the enormous waste of money on things that are fun – Northvolt’s bankruptcy cost us 80 billion SEK.
I find it very difficult to understand why Sweden constantly chooses poor alternatives to try to solve its problems.
Families with children are the future – they are the ones who build a country, period.
It should be attractive to be a parent, and there are plenty of studies showing which ages are biologically best, and it’s not when you’re over 40 and finally can afford the townhouse.
What do people argue about the most in a relationship that is okay – probably money?
Glömt inte att donera, Ukrainas sak är vår! Stöd Ukraina!
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