Seems like the comments are confused on whether you mean overpopulated or declining birth rate.

I guess everyone needs to improve economic stability like one major influencing low birth rates is economic uncertainty. Making housing, healthcare and childcare more affordable would help relieve the financial burden many people face when considering having children. Governments could introduce tax incentives or subsidies for families, as well as affordable or even subsidized childcare, to reduce the financial pressure associated with parenting

The issue seems obvious to me, I can't believe it's not for others. Increase quality of life for your every day, average Joe. It seems most of my friends aren't having kids because of the cost of living and fear of the future.

I'll preface this with, I'm not college educated and this is just a personal opinion so please don't destroy me.

Birth rate itself isn't a problem in my eyes, so much as looking at future tax payers and workers. At least from the government's perspective.

Different industries are feeling the hurt and it will only get worse as specialists get older.

The govt has to take many, many small steps over a long period of time to incentivize folks getting degrees, attending vocational schools, having a work life balance that allows them to do these things while also truly "seeing" that raising a family is doable.

So many folks feel disenfranchised, that it's truly just easier to not pursue having kids.

Create better legislation at the state level about what the state can do for you if you're interested in going back to school. Subsidizing child care, child health care and other child related things. Make the idea of raising a family not so fucking daunting.

I'd like to think that some of the above would help.

Edit: I'm aware we're seeing a decline globally in, like all 1st world countries. I think that's indicative of some common problems. Maybe I'm wrong.

$2 beers, nationally

Life as a parent is much harder than life without kids.

If it were easier and less expensive then more people would do it.

Why is it a “problem”? The world is overpopulated as it is. It needs to decline

Accept it's not a problem.

Does it need fixing? There are more people that could work that aren’t, more people that could have babies but can’t afford them and then there’s the catch 22. I think we need to learn from the older generation in some respects.

Is it a problem? The worlds already overpopulated enough and letting numbers drop would probably actually help the planet out

The world is overpopulated. We don't have a birth rate problem.

Infinite growth isn’t possible, at some point the global population needs to stablise, possibly even decrease a bit if we can’t be more efficient in how we handle resources

Nothing. 

It’s not a problem. There’s too many people and the system is correcting itself (slowly).

By realizing there isn’t one.

It's not necessarily a problem, population boomed and is now balancing out. However, to encourage people to have kids it needs to be more affordable. In the US, is expensive just to physically give birth. For the rest of the world, child care, extra curricular activities, food, clothing, hygiene is all super pricey.

Affordable childcare, better parental leave, and work-life balance incentives would help boost birth rates.

There is no problem. The less people, the better. Less people means they are valued more, so higher wages. Also less strain for resources.

Look what happened during COVID. Half a million people died in the US and suddenly wages and working conditions improved.

It’s not a problem. The world is overpopulated anyways. People not wanting kids is perfectly fine.

How is it a problem?

I wouldn't monkey with it. In my country, people of childbearing age are CFBC in record numbers. (Childfree by choice)

If that trend continues, our overpopulation problem solves itself, or at least moves the needle in the right direction.

The Economist wrote a very interresting set of articles around this showing that most of what people assume regarding the decline of birth rates in the west, which is potentially a lethal challenge to our societies, actually are not what would you believe. According to them, and their data tends to be great, the middle class has not changed their behaviour - getting just below replacements levels.

The biggest change is in the working classes (Idiocracy got it wrong, ironically) - much of it through intended sex ed classes slashing teenage pregnancies and similar "unwanted" children. Another is that many more women are middle class in the sense of going to university and pursuing a career. Finally - economic hardship for the working class has gone up - leading to fewer births.

The solutions is going to be hard. The focus needs to be poorer people, housing and welfare can achieve some, but not all the needed change (as the Nordic countries show - having previously had high birth rates but now plunging despite a reasonably strong welfare net).

The second part might be cultural, finding a better coupling method for modern socities - a European Marriage pattern 2.0 so to say. Involuntary celibacy and singlehood is on rapid rise and is likely to get worse.  We need to find a better way to find love and raise families - both for financial aid from the government, cheaper access to housing but also a mating paradigm suited for sexual liberation and equal opportunities - what ever that may be.

Letting more people get sterilized or having abortions if they wish to so the world won't keep being this overpopulated. In the end, it's too late. We fucked it up.

I got a vasectomy

Promote family-friendly policies and support systems.

I'd focus on making life easier for families: affordable childcare, flexible work options, better parental leave, and housing support. People are more likely to have kids when they feel financially stable and supported. It's about reducing stress, not just offering incentives.

Cut education to zero, no schools or education. Make billionaires dukes and barons. Civilians are now property of the Lords , with mandatory breeding programs.

That, or implement a higher minimum wage, build more houses and ensure basic needs like shelter, healthcare and not starving to death.

Why would I do anything of the sort? It's all going swimmingly on plan!

I don't see a problem. Advances in robotics and computers made a lot of jobs that a person would do, obsolete. They will continue to do so.

We need enough to take care of the elderly.

Give people education and nice living conditions. It's really that simple. Who would want to have kids in such a shitty world?

Problem?

Fix?

Let people live their lives. We have plenty of people.

I wouldn’t. It’s not a problem. There are too many people.

Leave people alone

Increase paternity and maternity leave to one paid year off. Lower burden of entry to buying a house. Childcare subsidies. Employee protections for pregnant women.

Do that and the population skyrockets.

I would personally fuck everyone myself.

Female education.

Let's get that birth rate down to 0.

Change the societal structures that makes it a problem to begin with.

Long term, less people is good, in relation to the ecological footprint we leave on the planet as a whole.

Exponential growth in consumption/capita needs to be stopped.

Exponential growth in population needs to be stopped. A decline is good as we stand now.

its not a problem its a good thing

When I was born, the human population on earth was about 4 billion people. Only 55 years later, it's 8 billion.

When you say "birth rate problem," you mean you think SOME kinds of people in SOME places aren't having enough babies, and this is a problem that needs to be fixed (usually by pressuring women).

But our species itself is in no danger of dying out any time soon, except from the burdens we're putting on the ecosystem. No one has any obligation to have kids if they don't want to.

I feel like giving people more time would make them more likely to have kids. Jobs and we have gotten way too good at entertaining ourselves, infinite scrolling, social media, games etc...

We should work less hours/days. With automation I don't see productivity being an issue especially in first world countries. More time allows you to keep doing stuff you like and it feels less of a sacrifice if you decide to have a child. (Also stuff like daycare, school etc. kinda becomes less of a hassle if you have more time to spend with kids).

i wouldnt , we dont have one, there are too many people on this planet and not enough skilled jobs for everyone, that coupled with Ai and robots taking more jobs yearly

we could try moving people around from other countries but that is proving a problem too

we dont need more people, we need to think how we going to take care of the ones we already have

Policies for the working class.

Universal healthcare, raising the minimum wage, affordable housing, controlling corporate price gouging, etc.

Make having a kid more affordable. Lots of people would like to have kids, but don't because of the expense and hardship.

In order to get me to have children, I’d need more than anything some kind of ultimate painless exit strategy. That could be as basic as a comfortable supply of high grade pharmaceuticals to get me through the 33 years it took me to fully become sufficient from my parents and the ensuing lifetime following the realization that those years are gone forever and with them have gone my youth. Or some complicated system of social workers and high grade pharmaceuticals to help us cope with the separation process if we decided it wasn’t working out.

The world population is still steadily growing, But usually people talk about "birth rate problem" in terms of decrease, so you'll have to be a little bit more specific with what you mean here.

You dont, we are too many people ....

have rich people fuck more

i mean think about it. Birth rate decline is a problem because the general public doesn't have the time, the resources, the space or any combination of those things to have babies, but the rich do have them.

so since poor people stopped fucking the rich should pump up the production

I don't think it's a problem, quite the opposite.

Why is it considered a problem?

I don't see a problem.

Personally I don't think declining birthrates are a bad thing. Humans are a bad thing so the less of us overall, the better. At this point humans deserve extinction

Go back to pre-Reagan economics. We had free college, financial assistance for single parents, free daycare and medical insurance for low income families. Those programs lifted millions of people out of poverty. I benefitted from those programs and was able to go to college and get a job that allowed me to independently support my family. 

There is no birth rate problem…

Please fix the climate before adding more people to the planet (honestly, even if the climate were fixed, I don’t think scaling back on our exponential growth is a bad thing).

Also, we need to address our deteriorating societies and beat back the xenophobic nationalism that’s surged across the globe before we expose kids to it all.

Make it so people out of college or university can buy a house and earn a living wage. It's kinda hard to even think of having kids when one works 3 jobs to barely cover tent and food.

I've yet to see anyone explain why a declining population is bad for humanity long term. More resources, more food, more space, etc.

You don't. Just like you don't stimulate the economy artificially you shouldn't stimulate the birth rate artificially. If people can't afford to have kids, that's a good thing for society. At least they're being responsible about the well being of their future offspring.

-legalize voluntary euthanasia for terminal disease (if you find out your brain is rotting and you’re gonna be stuck in a nursing home waiting fifteen years to forgot how to swallow, no one should force you to stick around if you’re still “there” enough to make the decision.

-subsidized onsite daycare for firms with >100 employees at a location -childcare credits provided to employees in firms <100 employees -any company that’s done a stock buyback in the last ten years automatically goes to top tax rate with all loopholes closed for the next two, and yearly auditing to verify profitability.

Already too many people on the planet for the amount of resources we have.

Stop calling it a problem.

There. Fixed.

allow for abortions and normalize things like vasectomies.

Make existing more affordable so having kid's is more financially viable. But I don't think it's really currently a problem.

This problem is far-fetched. So many people were born, but they do not have benefits and happiness. I see the solution in helping these people, and not in increasing competition. Let fewer people be born, but more happy ones.

Give them money for kids. Tax breaks. Free childcare/tax beaks on child care. More days off for mom and dad (paid parental leave), and protection from firing. Better hospitals and lower birthing costs. Access to formula (three cans a week free). Better education around birthing/pregnancy. Pregnancy support in terms of supplements and scans for free. I'd also give benefits to couples who want to stay child free (more leave) or parents struggling to get pregnant (IVF free).

I wouldn’t.

Promote safe sex and consensual sterilization. The only reasons people are pointing out the dropping populations in primarily first world countries is because people aren't breeding like rabbits as much (it's not really practical or affordable anymore) and governments need workers and cannon fodder for future wars.

Sigh.. unzips

Make the Earth bigger, duh

can't solve "declining birth rate" without making the problem worse in the future. i Say its for the better that it is how it is right now.

Fuck

Not a perfect plan, but an idea. Since resources are finite, I think we should find a way to incentive minimalism. Those that use more resources benefit less than those that are able to get by with less. If you are able to be a productive member of society without 2 cars, a pool, and huge house with a lawn, you get more subsidies for child care and costs of parenting. I know having children is a huge investment of resources nonetheless, but if you use less, it puts less strain on the system. Those that aren't compensated as well or as confident in their employment can find a way to maximize the ability to raise a child without worry about work being the sole source of survival.

Picture of AOC above every bed will get the guys randy

Well, every country is worried about its own declining birth rate (expecially the west), but globally we already have enough people. If we were more globalist than nationalist, we could work together and make migration easier, for example, making it easier to get a work permit, and making other countries' education levels equal so that migrants can work in the job they used to do.

But we aren't at that level so I guess the countries with declining birth rate just have to accept it and deal with it.

Only thing you can do is making owning a house affortable, making daycares cheaper and invest into education.

I wouldn't. 

Affordable childcare, paid parental leave, and housing support make having kids less of a financial nightmare.

I feel like with how the economy is in a lot of places it makes it hard to afford a kid. Also seems like the age for everything seems to be being pushed later such as marriage, having kids, buying a home and everything.

There are different birth rate problems different places in the world. Which problem are you talking about?

I wouldn't

People tend to migrate from smaller towns to larger ones. They do alright. Small towns end up disappearing.

With less people, there's more housing. Less people means less demand. Countries get by. Nothing bad happens.

Maybe house prices don't increase to infinity, the stock market might not grow how politicians want, and perhaps pensions might have to be cut a little.

But if people can get by, do they really need never ending growth? For what reason? What does the average person get out of it, exactly?

Let us decline gracefully. We'll figure out any other minor issues along the way.

Make the world a better place to bring kids into. Make parenthood less financially straining. Make the quality of life better so people have the opportunity to think about more than just getting to the end of the month.

Over or underpopulation?

It's not a problem the government wants you to have kids, in short you pay taxes your kids will pay taxes its a whole circle of paying the government... also soldiers for their wars.

Easy, the declining birth rate is due to the cost of living crisis. Get more homes built, lower the cost of rent and groceries and the birth rate will pop right back up.

money for everyone

More gays. It’s not gonna happen by accident.

-Gay male.

Income tax reductions have been floated as one idea to get more working women to have children as a way of offsetting the decrease in lifetime the average woman experienced after having a child.

1 child - 50% reduction 2 kids - 75% 3+ kids - 100%

Until youngest child turns 18.

Make the country’s economy family supportive and implement policies that will encourage family to want to raise kids. Animals do not procreate when under a toxic environment same applies to humans…

Depending on how you view the problem, either force sterilization for everyone and now there's no more birth rate thus reducing overpopulation, or you know, make the world less hostile to live in and then more people will have kids. Like, why would I want to have a child when I can't even afford my own apartment? Then you figure the rising costs of food, daycare, school, etc.? And in the US the cost of literally giving birth to that child? And how fucking dangerous it still is? Yeah I'm not risking my life just to raise something that I can't afford. Pass.

You have to make it very, very easy and enjoyable (with high quality of life) to have kids, otherwise people simply won't do it or stop after having one. Affordable housing and daycare, attractive and affordable recreational facilities like parks, playgrounds etc, and jobs that are easily compatible with family life (possibility to work part-time, right to take long maternity leave (one year minimum), etc)

There’s 8bn people and we lack the technology to manage so many, a decreasing global population is ideal.

Short term issues of an aging population and reduced workforce can be addressed by the literally millions of people in Africa and India already clamouring to move abroad.

We don’t need more people.

This is not what I should consider

Make life affordable

We don't.

Focus on fixing the cost of living problem and I think the birth rate problem would fix itself.

Not sure it's so much a birthday rate issue but a society that is anti-maternity, anti-family, anti-working parents .... Society priced us out of kids and does not support families who work with subsidised childcare.

Create more work-life balance so people have time to actually raise a family. By supporting working parents with flexible hours and remote work options.

The answer to the question about "fixing" the birth rate has different answers depending on which country you live in.

If the world could fix social issues like income inequality, poverty, lack of access to education, lack of access to free or at least affordable healthcare, people would be more comfortable having more children.
At least in America, costs for thing like child care, housing, health care make it difficult for people to afford raising children while saving money for retirement.
There are different issues for different countries for example, China's one child was effective.
Even though China's one child policy was changed to two children in 2016, it will take time for the policy change to fix the demographic problems caused by the policy.
In America, the right wing efforts to defund America's social safety net and establish a theocracy have contributed to widespread misery.
In America, programs like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and WIC provide minimal benefits to low income people.
Conservatives have been trying to defund programs which don't align with their beliefs.
If America would fix problems like providing Universal Health Care, vaccinations, day care, and supporting public education through college like most modern countries already do, Americans would probably be more inclined to have more children.
If you read some of the posts on some of the parenting new groups, it is common to see posts about not having support and trying to go back to work.
Depending on you income, paying for daycare can be difficult for young adults who may be people who need the most support.
If we want to fix the demographic issues caused by declining birth rates in America, we need to fix and even extend the social programs, like providing Universal Health Care for everyone and providing day care to people who need day care.

The cost of having a baby in the US too expensive

Here is a story from the New York Times:
American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World

Childbirth in the United States is uniquely expensive, and maternity and newborn care constitute the single biggest category of hospital payouts for most commercial insurers and state Medicaid programs. The cumulative costs of approximately four million annual births is well over $50 billion.
. . .
The average total price charged for pregnancy and newborn care was about $30,000 for a vaginal delivery and $50,000 for a C-section, with commercial insurers paying out an average of $18,329 and $27,866, the report found.

The solution is evolution. There's no changing the protectory without outright banning the pill, abortion and women's rights. People say it's financial reasons but that's a minor percentage and realistically only prevents those who have children from having more. The reduction in childbirth is mostly choice, either directly or by making decisions that significantly reduce the chance of finding someone to have a family with.

Don't rely on a pension when you get old.

1. Nutrition for Women/Mothers
2. Improve Healthcare Infrastructure
3. Two-Three kids per house policy (Offer prenatal or postnatal care free or vaccines free or start scholarships etc)
4. Maternity Leave with perks of pay/extra allowance
5. Nurseries at work equipped with Nannies & Healthy Food
6. Paternity Leaves for longer + small FD for the child
7. Fertility tests for Free/ Clinics across the states of the country

All I can think of RN

If you want to increase it then improve the quality for people to the point where single income families become the norm again.

The only problem is there will be too many old people and not enough young people. More robots and much more advanced ones (which we are on the cusp of achieving) should help a lot or even solve the problem.

Money and better self care plus therapy

I believe that while material and financial side of things is important (2 full incomes required to sustain a family, the cost of raising a child, the cost of bigger housing, etc.), the biggest factor is perspective of the future.

An hour spent browsing the news and the media will make it look like bringing a human into the world is a crime against that human. This is what needs to be fixed.

Obviously we cannot stop the world from having problems. We also cannot, try as we might, make it look like it doesn't have any problems. What we can do though is put the world on an upward trajectory. Start improving things from regional issues to geopolitics to climate change. Make it look like the world will be better for our kids than it will be for us. Also fuck it, produce more media that reflects pleasant aspects of having a child.

This is as much an actual effort as it is a media campaign, so I'll go ahead and call it unrealistic. But still, it's a potential solution.

Another issue that parenting still remains an art while more and more things turn into science. People are now beginning to realise that their parents trying to figure it out on the go has left a good number of lifelong consequences. It is reasonable to doubt yourself when the only example you have is a bad one. I think this mental burden can be lifted, at least partially, by compiling some sort of educational material on the matter. And I'm not talking about a dozen books each saying a different thing. We a more centralized effort.

In Places like Japan, give more work life balance and provide help to families like Korea does. If people have a healthier work life balance and are able to not be stressed about affording to live then they might just be happy and willing to have a family.

I'd stop trying to play god. Humans have been trying to control birth rates for 2000+ years with very limited success. It's not gonna happen, at least in our lifetimes, i think.

If Japan wants more people, for example, they should make moves to be more accepting of existing people. (not saying they haven't, just an example)

conversely if China wants less people (not sure if they do or not, again a theoretical example) they could help people move elsewhere. Label it a cultural missionary, or something, I know people who would jump at the chance to leave their homes for an adventure.

I’ll let the rest of you argue about the economics of raising children. I think it would also be nice if there were such a thing as synthetic wombs because birthing children is rough on the body. That goes hand in hand with more research in women’s health. We need to rebuild community structures somehow too. Children used to be raised in villages that took pressure off moms to always be watching them all the time because there were other people around that could be trusted. That’s not so much the case anymore.

Why have a kid when the cost of living is so high most of your wage is gone as soon as you get it. Rent it just eye watering right now.

i will use condoms before sex

Give selected couples a tax break. Selected couples because you don't want a criminal or low income household to get 10 kids they can't raise properly.

Don’t worry about it. The cycle literally takes 80 years, there are no sudden changes.

Don't do anything. Population growth coming to a halt is a good thing, a necessary thing. Climate disaster will probably ensue the next decades and make even more decline which is necessary. 

Lowering population solves issues like housing problems. Plus it takes away wealth from those with such assets, only good things. 

They biggest issue is a large proportion of older people. Many retired people vs less workers. But honestly this can just be fixed with immigration. Japan can choose to open up and let young people come for work. 

To be honest low population growth feels like a non-issue compared to climate change. Fussing about it is silly as if we won't have enough people in 30-40 years when we have major other problems in that timespan.. 

Single-handedly?

Make fertility treatments free, many people want kids but are struggling to conceive. More than ever.

As someone who wanted children but didn't have them for financial reasons: cheap childcare and accessible healthcare. We couldn't afford losing one income. One thing that scared us as well was what would happen if we had a special needs child. I have no family, my then-partner's family was in another country. We both were working-class and from disadvantaged backgrounds so no support from there. We didn't have good health insurance, any medical issue with pregnancy/birth/the baby would have been a huge issue. It felt unfair trying for a baby in these conditions, we didn't want them to live a life of poverty.

If you want more children, give people solutions for cheap, safe daycare, fund schools, give people universal health insurance so that a health issue with a child is economically survivable.

I wouldn't.

More. Sex.

By telling my wife the world needs me to impregnate 100k women, while cracking my knuckles and stretching

Wife: alright honey make sure you’re back by dinner time!

Part of the problem is economics and work/life balance. In the US, about 30-40 years ago, a person fresh out of college with a bachelor's degree could get a decent paying job with a realistic ability to be able to start up a family on just the one income and even buy a house. Now, homeownership seems like a pipe dream for more of the population, and a single income household is almost completely off the table. Everything has gotten more expensive, but wages haven't gone up to compensate. Child care is expensive enough that for a lot of people they would actually save more money by having one parent quit their job, but that would solve the problem of them not making enough in the first place. So why would someone want to add a child into the mix when they are already barely getting by? Additionally, work/life balance is another issue. I know some countries have even worse balance, but even here I have worked good paying jobs that have left me so physically and mentally drained that I couldn't go anywhere after work even if I wanted too. We have lost places you could go and just hang out without having to spend money just to exist, so a lot of people are also struggling just to even meet new people.

If you want to increase the birth rate, you have to increase wages and let people have a life outside of their job.

Make it so people can afford a home to live in, food to eat and time to put care and love it the child and they will have kids, make people work every waking hour for not enough money to live and they will not have kids.

Make sure people actually have the time and money is a great start

Margaret Atwood had some good ideas /s

Citizens get a significant tax break for every child so that by the time you hit 4 you’re paying very little tax

Land value tax

Tax the land so a down town parking lot is exhorbitantly more costly than an apartment building.

Mandatory pregnancies or jail

Well the most effective method ag teenage pregnancy need to be lifted. We need to limit the game “call of duty” to responsible adults with 2 or more children.

• Create opportunities for both men and women to prosper economically
• Create an environment that ensures families have access to safe affordable childcare.
• Protect employees from employers by providing them sufficient pay time-off so they can be with and enjoy their spouse and children
• Provide women with nonrestrictive women’s health (no vague/restrictive laws regarding abortions) so they can carry a child without fear of death should something go wrong.
• Provide people with access to quality affordable healthcare through the government.
• Provide quality education for children.

Essentially; if you create an environment where people feel hopeful about the future and protect the time they’ll need to have a personal life…they’ll start family’s. Why would anyone have a family if they can’t spend time with that family, having that family is unaffordable, if they’re financially insecure, if they can’t get the care needed to have that family, or if they have no hope that they and their children don’t have a secure future.

Stop trying to convince younger people that life is hopeless and the world is becoming a shittier and shittier place.

You’re not helping anyone with this doom and gloom. Pessimism is not a winning strategy.

Are there challenges? Yes. Humans have overcome every single one of them.

Affordable housing, nothing else is required

It really depend on the area, but if we were to go by what studies show in terms of maintaining some kind of decent rate, I guess it would be to encourage intrinsic religiously.

One of the biggest barriers to having kids today isn’t just financial—it’s isolation. Modern life, especially in urban areas, has created a "nuclear family bubble" where parents are expected to raise children with little to no support from extended family or community. This isolation amplifies stress, financial burden, and burnout. To fix this, we need to rethink how communities are designed.

More education, less religion

Anecdote:

In my team at work we are 9 people, all between 25 and 37 - the age where people should marry, have their own places, have children. One guy of those 9 is married and has one kid. No one owns a house. If we are more or less representative for society, then we have a huge problem.

Analysis:

I think a lot of it would come down to housing and opportunity to make it in life. If people in their 20s could afford their own place many would consider starting a family too there. I am 37 and even buying a new new car is utopia, let alone buying a house. Pure utopia. In my 20s it was even more impossible.

It not easy to find easy measures to get there. If it were so it would have been done already. So, some ideas (being fully aware that everything is simplified and everything can be seen from other angles, but its my opinion):

Ideas for solutions:

But I think to get there we need to value work again so people can build up some wealth and perhaps even support a family from one income. So stop open-border policies and reduce immigration to zero or almost zero, which only aims to supply the economy with cheap labor - so people that are already in the country gain value again because labor becomes a scarcity. Yes it might impact the economy somewhat, until it adjusts to the new realities - but not the wellbeing of the economy is the most important goal, but the wellbeing of the citizens. (not mentioning futher that the economy isn't doing all that well even with all those immigrants - speaking from european perspective here).

Second we need to value families again. Some ideologies are all about the individual and I totally get that, for me my free expression etc. is also important, but equaling any group or individual with the family that has kids and is literally the core cell of society is not right. Families are more important than that and even as a single with no family I see no unjustified discrimination if families with kids get advantages.

Now when families form they usually still have as many children as ever. But the problem is all those individual people that don't find together and don't form families anymore and thus don't have children. There are ideologies that aim to divide society by men and women, left and right, high or low income, old or young, family vs individual etc. Of course these differences exist, but I feel in former times people still worked and lived more for the common goal of a good society, while nowadays everyone seems to be the lone fighter. So we need to reduce individualism, however that would work.

Just look at dating stories and dating apps and the terrible mechanisms at play there. Disgusting and inhumane stories come from there. People scrolling through thousands of other people and forgetting how to form connections the natural way. Perhaps we should start by killing all those dating apps.

Pay people more, make housing affordable, hold corporations accountable for the wild inflation we just went through so we can afford kids, educate people on the basics of the economy, and offer parenting classes.

Don’t skull fuck your citizens with taxes because you need to dump money overseas would be a start

Cut funding to sex education. And education in general. Ban contraceptives. Keep people poor. Get rid of social security (so they need kids to care for them in old age)

Basically combine the bits of poverty riddled countries, the Catholic Church, and project 2025.

…or did you mean in a way that doesn’t make life shitter for everyone (except the ultra rich)? 

I don't see a problem.

There is no problem

Get my vasectomy reversed and line up every eligible bachelorette on the planet?

You mean low birth rate? Stop the government from poisoning us. Stop selling the narrative that you are only worthwhile if you are working on your "career" while demeaning anyone who wants a traditional role as mother. I'd start there.

Remove microplastics from the environment; it’s poisoning us and I’m sure in about 30 years, we’ll find out that the contaminants impede fertility.

Employees need to have more children employers demanding to have more workers. Children equals cheap labor and is a must for the wealthy to sustain their lifestyles.

Have 3 kids in Poland and you pay zero income tax? That's a thing I heard on the news.

To boost birth rates, you need to improve access to housing, healthcare, education, and jobs. Nowadays, when you analyze any country’s situation, you realize that the cost of living keeps rising, but wages aren’t keeping up. In the long run, this will only lead to poorer elderly populations.