I don't care, call it what you like - shortage of water, shortage of food, shortage of land, shortage of clean air, shortage of clean seas and seafood, shortage of rain forests, etc.
Whichever way you look at it and whatever label you put on it, there are simply too many human beings on this planet.
We don't need to pay anyone to have children, we already have too many of them. And while western society gets drunk on it's own obesity, already a third of the children we have on this planet are starving and dying.
I say no to paid maternity leave. If you want to have children, have them, but pay for them yourselves. As a tax payer, I don't want to pay for other people's life style choices.
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...but people are going to have children no matter what right? So don't you think those kids have the right to have their mother or father at home for the formative months after birth? I agree we need less children being born, but surely we need to give a fair start to the future generation?
I think parents have been free to stay home with their young children since time began. I don’t think anything has changed in that area in 50 years, more. They are free now to stay home with them, irrespective of paid leave. Sure, they may not be able to have their 5 bedroom renovation, sure, they may not be able to have their two new Landcruises in the garage, sure they may not be able to have their yearly overseas trip, but hey, what’s more important to them.
Put quite simply, with the state the world is in, we can’t afford to encourage people to have kids.
Ok you make some good points that I agree with. I still don't think it addresses poverty among families.
On another tangent, I heard an interesting statistic about "conservative" parents vs. "liberal" parents. Because statistically conservatives have more children than liberals, conservatives are replacing their votes with MORE little conservatives. While meanwhile liberals are phasing themselves out by not procreating as much.
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