We're worrying about the wrong thing. Low birth rate isn't the crisis: Child care is.

Birth rate dip calls for comprehensive action — not one-time bandaids • Indiana Capital Chronicle

The U.S. birth rate has been in decline since 2007. (Getty Images)Federal lawmakers are considering funding $1,000 savings accounts for children and a $5,000 baby bonus to combat falling birth rates. But I think it’s a much larger discussion than one-time payments that won’t even cover the cost of diapers. I must start this conversation by being clear that I have never given birth. I was lucky enough to find a man with an amazing daughter, and s…

Kid Rock Tells Fox News America Has Low Birth Rate Because ‘No Guy Wants to Sleep’ With ‘Ugly Ass, Broke, Crazy’ Liberal Women

Country rock and rap musician Kid Rock claimed on Fox News that America was suffering a low birth rate because “no guy wants to sleep” with “ugly ass, broke, crazy, deranged, TDS liberal women.” During an interview on Thursday with the 54-year-old musician – who was briefly married to Pamela Anderson in the 2000s – Fox News host Jesse Watters played a clip of a group of liberal protesters and asked, “When you play your concerts, do you ever see …

We're worrying about the wrong thing. Low birth rate isn't the crisis: Child care is.

Making more babies by threat, faux incentives, or even force is not a goal or a solution. And it ignores the desperate, real needs of families.