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How to raise fertility?

How would we raise fertility?

38 people have given 493 responses

Statements with the highest number of 👍 or the highest number of 👎 appear at the top (if everyone thinks 👎, that's consensus too)

Build lots of cheap housing

70%
9%
22%

Reducing necessary working hours to achieve a good standard of living (UBI, very high hourly wages, etc.)

68%
23%
9%

Reduce opportunity cost of raising children by reducing national hourly wages

8%
67%
25%

Subsidise daycare

64%
23%
14%

Check women's periods

17%
63%
20%

Pay a lot to new parents

62%
21%
17%

Reduce legal red tape (cost of childcare, size of car seats)

60%
12%
28%

Abolish NHS

12%
60%
28%

Growth in the human population is slowing naturally through people's individual choices. We shouldn't interfere with this.

40%
60%

Declining fertility is a good thing because it will help us live within planetary boundaries.

60%
40%

Re-anchor people with the following article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_children

21%
57%
21%

Build rickety skyscrapers in huge numbers

15%
54%
31%

Tax those with no or few children

32%
54%
14%

Extending fertility windows of women

50%
25%
25%

reduce social stigmas around polyamory and having children with multiple people

38%
50%
13%

The population has grown due to the explosion of energy made available from fossil fuels. If we're reaching the limits of this energy expansion, then it's natural that fertility will decline.

50%
25%
25%

Policy levers are effective at raising fertility

48%
30%
22%

Artificial wombs

26%
44%
30%

build lots more suburban housing

43%
14%
43%

Get rid of all regulation restricting supply of energy. Rely only on institutions of common law.

14%
43%
43%

Get rid of all regulation restricting supply of childcare. Rely only on institutions of common law.

20%
40%
40%

Get the Church of England to ratify the conclusion of their 1908 and 1920 Lambeth Conference. I.e.: They should strongly discourage contraception

15%
38%
46%

Social praise for those who have lots of kids

38%
31%
31%

Extending fertility windows of women

38%
19%
44%

Get rid of all regulation restricting supply of healthcare. Rely only on institutions of common law.

18%
36%
45%

Get rid of all regulation restricting supply of housing. Rely only on institutions of common law.

27%
36%
36%

Reduce university subsidies

29%
33%
38%

Be patient. In the medium-run, evolution will win.

33%
33%
33%