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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For boys “don’t get your partner pregnant”, and a lot of help to protect themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early pregnancies were bad, you were a bad person if you had children early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then you were supposed to build a career before having children, and women were not supposed to stay at home with children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was preferable to have a house before having children as well, and you get less and less for your salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then divorce has been encouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead of putting families with children on a pedestal, they are considered somewhat annoying in public spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have a couple of reactionary suggestions here –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-give everyone who has a child 150,000 SEK in a birth gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-allow working parents, one parent at a time, to reduce to half-time with maintained salary until the children are 12 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-give everyone who wants to engage in sports clubs as coaches the right to reduce their working hours to 75% with maintained salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-make preschool and school attractive and have different levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or the enormous waste of money on things that are fun – Northvolt’s bankruptcy cost us 80 billion SEK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I find it very difficult to understand why Sweden constantly chooses poor alternatives to try to solve its problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Families with children are the future – they are the ones who build a country, period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What do people argue about the most in a relationship that is okay – probably money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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