There was a well-publicized law in China which forbad more than one baby per family and they enforced the law, to their great notoriety, with mandatory abortion. That policy succeeded, apparently, better than they had hoped for reducing their population growth since now they encourage couples to have a second child and may even award 'birth pay' for doing it. (RT: Cash on delivery: China contemplates rewards to urge couples to have 2nd child)
In China, the birth rate was low by state mandate but that wasn't the case in Spain and the same situation is true in which the state is looking for ways to encourage people to have children. (RT: Spanish government creates new sex position to stimulate low birthrate)
Note: that title goes into the Book of Unfortunate Titles since any new sex position which is not in the Kama Sutra is officially defined as a gymnastic trick and not a sex act at all.
The Spanish government has taken a radical step to arrest the country's declining birth rate – by creating the position of a ‘Sex Tsar’. It’s part of bid to encourage a baby boom and boost the population slump.
Galician senator and demographics expert, Edelmira Barreria Diz, has been appointed government commissioner with special responsibility for challenging the nation's sliding birthrate.
Last year Spain recorded more deaths than births for the first time since World War II prompting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to take action.
- RT
Unknown how much low birth rates have to do with the ZPG Movement (i.e. Zero Population Growth) of the Sixties but probably most of it is because people can't afford children and the ones who do it anyway wind up in a financial hellhole.
The low birth rates are common across all of the developed nations and they sustain existing populations if they keep an average of two births but it's not uncommon when they don't. Maintaining the population is fine but it does nothing to accommodate growth and that's where the migrants come into it.
There's no need for the editorial on the need for migrants since you know it already but the thing you may not know is there is state-level recognition of the problem of low birth rates so it might behoove you to consider it as well.
Ed: do you expect me to immediately start making babies?
No, and, despite all the offers, I won't be doing it either.
Australia was paying out a baby bonus and my family immigrated there from Scotland but my ol' Mother was getting a cheque from the state for the babies she was making.
Note: unknown if that policy continues in Australia. I've not heard of such a policy in America but there probably isn't one.
People are having great fun with xenophobia just now but it doesn't work and, in fact, it has never worked.
In China, the birth rate was low by state mandate but that wasn't the case in Spain and the same situation is true in which the state is looking for ways to encourage people to have children. (RT: Spanish government creates new sex position to stimulate low birthrate)
Note: that title goes into the Book of Unfortunate Titles since any new sex position which is not in the Kama Sutra is officially defined as a gymnastic trick and not a sex act at all.
The Spanish government has taken a radical step to arrest the country's declining birth rate – by creating the position of a ‘Sex Tsar’. It’s part of bid to encourage a baby boom and boost the population slump.
Galician senator and demographics expert, Edelmira Barreria Diz, has been appointed government commissioner with special responsibility for challenging the nation's sliding birthrate.
Last year Spain recorded more deaths than births for the first time since World War II prompting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to take action.
- RT
Unknown how much low birth rates have to do with the ZPG Movement (i.e. Zero Population Growth) of the Sixties but probably most of it is because people can't afford children and the ones who do it anyway wind up in a financial hellhole.
The low birth rates are common across all of the developed nations and they sustain existing populations if they keep an average of two births but it's not uncommon when they don't. Maintaining the population is fine but it does nothing to accommodate growth and that's where the migrants come into it.
There's no need for the editorial on the need for migrants since you know it already but the thing you may not know is there is state-level recognition of the problem of low birth rates so it might behoove you to consider it as well.
Ed: do you expect me to immediately start making babies?
No, and, despite all the offers, I won't be doing it either.
Australia was paying out a baby bonus and my family immigrated there from Scotland but my ol' Mother was getting a cheque from the state for the babies she was making.
Note: unknown if that policy continues in Australia. I've not heard of such a policy in America but there probably isn't one.
People are having great fun with xenophobia just now but it doesn't work and, in fact, it has never worked.
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