The Cost of Raising Kids Is Extreme

There's a lot of countries who have tried that. Once you've urbanized, the cost of raising kids is extreme. The russians had the worst temography in the world until the chinese passed them by about 15 years ago. Now they're only the second worst. They tried back into two thousands. When putin really realized how bad the demographic picture was going to be, they offered cash prizes for every woman who would have a second or a third or fourth child. And so there are now about a million and a half to two millions either street children or orphans in the russian system. That's now having it in so many places that governments don't have the income

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