L’Irlanda deve incoraggiare le famiglie più numerose e una maggiore migrazione mentre i tassi di natalità diminuiscono, avverte il rapporto
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/12/29/ireland-must-encourage-larger-families-and-higher-migration-as-birth-rates-fall-report-warns/
di chuckleberryfinnable
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The experts here will tell you alternating things to do each passing year. We’re either being too close minded to immigration, or else we need to curb immigration
We need to reduce our national herd for climate reasons,, on second thought, let’s import beef from countries that level rainforests and have little to no animal welfare laws, so that we can sell heaps of cars to Brazil
Own nothing, travel and be happy,,
On second thought, you should have been saving for a deposit because it’s unlikely you’ll ever get a house now
They don’t care about you, they don’t care about Ireland, and they really couldn’t care less about the climate
The machine needs more fuel.
Remove sex education from the schools curriculum, ban contraception and encourage underage drinking.
Simple
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Can we operate a licensing system so that only parents who instill a level of repect in their kids can procate?
I dont know how you can effectively encourage larger families. It would be like uninventing the wheel.
In the modern world, with opportunities and education for women, it seems vast majority of people worldwide only want 0-2 children.
Need to fix the major causes such as lack of housing, soaring housing costs pushing back age when people start having children, high child care costs and more supports.
Yeah I’m sure the current government will do everything it can to help young families 😂
Why are they building such massive schools? Who can afford all these children we are supposed to have?
And raise them in what home, and put them in what creche, and what school?
This is entirely anecdotal but I was in school with multiple kids who came from families of five or six. Parents were probably comfortable enough financially but were by no means the 1%. I’m in my late 20s. I don’t know anyone now, cousins, older family friends, who has more than two kids. I know the UK went that way years ago so maybe it’s just the natural progression of things. But I can’t help think it’s because of housing and the cost of living.
Housing, childcare and salary growth (by stimulating growth) are the only ways to encourage people to have kids
We’re fucking killing the planet because of too many people and not enough resources. Stop making more children. We don’t need more people just to keep the rich happy.
Why do we need more people if everyone is saying there will be no jobs for them going forward? We should motivate people not to have kids and stop mass migration. AI will replace all workers going forward.
That’s if we are really trying to chase after the living standards of our parents.
But frankly thats not on the cards even if we filled up the country with young qualified workers. We would still have no where to put them and we wouldn’t even recognize ourselves. Would it be worth doing for something unachievable?
The cold hard truth is that the 20% world population in Europe and North America lived like royalty for the last couple of hundred years. But if the rest of the world started consuming at the same rate as we do there would be no world left.
What’s going to happen is we are going to decline in our consumption based life styles downwards and they are going to finish catching up to us. And even that will be far too much consumption for a sustainable world.
Even our decline in consumption is not sustainable. There is no point in bringing more consumers here vs anywhere when we can’t escape that decline.
The way it’s moving I fear that having children will be seen either as a sign of wealth or state dependency.
Fear not lads, modular housing sheds are going to ease the housing crisis. Start cranking out kids.
Ireland has made little to no effort to support families. Children and childcare are infeasibly expensive. If you want people to have children give them real incentives like higher tax credits, tax deductible expenses, and significant welfare benefits including heavily subsidised or paid childcare. My wife and I were lucky enough to live in a small two up two down. We welcomed our first child and we could all just about fit happily in our small house. When we welcomed our second we basically ran out of space and we sold up and bought a three bed. It has financially crippled us. We have no pensions, we can’t afford clothes or anything more than basic necessities, we are seriously constrained in our grocery shopping. We have had to make fundamental life changes to arrange to work a job and a half between us rather than two jobs, and at various stages spent the equivalent of a second mortgage on childcare just to have time to work. We are stressed and sick all the time. And this is two people who are generally in good health, have good jobs, love and wanted kids. We love our kids more than anything and wouldn’t change a thing. We literally spend about 80% of our income on our kids if you include housing. I would absolutely not recommend having kids if you want financial, health, personal, and mental stability and peace. And certainly no more than two.
The whole notion of eternal growth needs to end. Having a larger younger base to pay for the older non-workers is popular because then politicians don’t have to do fiscal planning. The path forward for the country is the same as what is recommended for individuals. Plan and save. Particularly on an island with finite resources and space. The goal should be a stable population and a well funded sovereign reserve.
Is there anything to be said for saying another papal mass?
That children’s hospital looking an even bigger waste of money now. Maybe we can convert it in a gigantic veterinary clinic.
Sure they can all live in cardboard boxes down by the local Aldi or in their nearest field.
Too expensive, I’ve 3 kids and I’m broke with now 4 dependants – its a horrible situation and I would advise start up families to stay small
Grown adults are forced to house share due to astronomical rents. What family could afford a 3 bed required to raise a family.
Sign me up, 10 kids on the way. 10 different baby mamas for maximum speed
They should follow Hungaries example and start giving tax breaks for having kids.
Every woman who has one new child gets a permanent 25% reduction in taxes, 2 kids 50%, 3 kids 75% and 4 kids and she never had to pay income tax ever again