Both parents have to work, if you want to increase birth rates then you can't force everyone to be a dual income family.

You'll notice that all the high birth rates are with single income family structures.

In Sweden you get 480 days of parental leave and heavily subsidized daycare. Both parents can have jobs without issues

So a year and a half. Every large family I know ( and I know very many, very large families) are single income or the mom works at the school.

He didn't even make a point, just gave us a fact about their social support programs.

Clearly paternal leave doesn't fix the core problem since it's been there, and grown, over the entire time the birth rate has fallen.

It doesn't even make sense to do it unless both parents have exceptional careers, and most people just have mundane jobs.

Not good enough. It is not for daycare and The State to raise your children while you're echoing poetically down the halls of Coincidence Inc...

Keeping a populace dumb and uneducated works pretty well.

On the other side of the coin a society without children allows its members the freedom to be obese and mentally ill.

I don't think fertility rate is something good or bad, I think people are very conservative (beyond its political sympathy) because change opens for uncertainty. It does not matter if it is about drugs, fertility, AI or diversity. Ergo, in many societies we live thinking that we are always progressing towards positive outcomes when the long term reality is more random.

Reduce taxes. All countries with high fiscal pressure have a low birth rate. Maybe the correlation is there. Someone out there might not want to look because his whole structure (bureaucracy) depends on the status quo.

.cz has been increasing births by tweaks to public policy/spend.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CZE/czechia/fertility-...

By allowing more than one children? What a generous State.

A TLD has been increasing birth rates?!? Surprising!