Every time someone says “Please think of the children”, fertility sinks by a millimeter
For a while, it looked like generous parental leave and subsidized daycare would convince people to have more children. I suspect that the causality in reality was much the other way around: Societies that didn't consider children extremely vulnerable built an infrastructure of parental leave and daycare. Societies that considered children very vulnerable didn't. People had fewer children in the latter kind of society because they were afraid to be unable to raise a child properly.
https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/every-time-someone-says-please-think
