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Hope22

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5. Simple way to fix low birth rates...

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Tue May 6, 2025, 12:37 PM

May 6

Paid family leave
Universal healthcare
DEI
Quality daycare
Quality public education
Women’s access to contraception and abortion
Tax credit for extended family childcare
Access to healthy, organic food
Subsidized food and housing for low income families

People aren’t going to crap out babies so you can kill them in the factories and on the battle field. Children are expensive and it’s time society started taking that seriously!

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How population decline will rob us of youth + Democrats Should Be Encouraging Women to Have All the Babies They Want [View all] Celerity May 6 OP

It's none of my business. gab13by13 May 6 #1

MAGAts will be parents? bucolic_frolic May 6 #2

Support pro-family policy Diamond_Dog May 6 #3

This is absurd. There is 3x the population today as there was in 1960. Scrivener7 May 6 #4

Simple way to fix low birth rates... Hope22 May 6 #5

Interesting tonkatoy8888 May 6 #6

Maybe our government can make some family-friendly policies Ritabert May 6 #7