>>133345The problem is that higher education and bigger families are at odds with one another, such a system would only stress the family more and would create resentful people. And that's if they keep the kid. We all know some callous bitch is just going to knock herself up with a sperm donator then send it off to adoption the moment it leaves her womb, just to tick the requirement box.
With how every job needs at least a bachelors to even be considered she's either working from home or sending her kids to daycare. School takes a long time too and has irregular schedules and high time demands, trying to care for kids while studying for an exam would be nightmarish. She has her first kid senior year of high school in order to graduate, then four years later has to have another kid to graduate college which needs to be done while raising a 1-4 year old, then another kid in two years for a graduate degree. If she hasn't worked herself to death she's caring for a six year old, a two year old, and an infant; all while buried under a mountain of debt and hasn't even gotten a real job yet.
The economy requires both parents to work, there's less time available for housekeeping and child rearing; it's a society that makes women not want to have children and just forcing them too would only make it worse.
Women should have children because they want to have children and start a family, and to do that you need to make it so that you're not costing them an arm and a leg to have a single one. Sorry Abe-sama, the average person just cant afford to have sex and have kids. Cost of living is high enough with just one mouth to feed, let alone all the other massive expenses involved with having a kid. And with how loose morals are these days like hell am I going to raise a child that isn't mine. The village structure of raising children is gone and nobody wants anything to do with your spawn unless cash is involved, you either do it by yourself or pay out the equivalent of a mortgage. Raising a big loving family is actual fantasy for most people now, and impregnation is now a fetish instead of being something normal and expected.
I'll have kids after I brb Gensokyo.