Strangely, the discussion around this article seems to indicate to me that children seem to be looked as trophies for their parents.
Children are as necessary for the society as a body as is food and sleep for individual humans. I understand the individualism that drives peoples toward libertarian ideals but children are beyond market mechanisms. They are part of our humanity, the structure without any efforts towards economical or other goals are pointless.
A child is not like a new SUV or an expensive hobby. A healthy, happy child is a net plus for the society to which he or she is born, that benefit all in the long term.
Children are as necessary for the society as a body as is food and sleep for individual humans. I understand the individualism that drives peoples toward libertarian ideals but children are beyond market mechanisms. They are part of our humanity, the structure without any efforts towards economical or other goals are pointless.
A child is not like a new SUV or an expensive hobby. A healthy, happy child is a net plus for the society to which he or she is born, that benefit all in the long term.