Quote (thundercock @ 10 May 2021 03:37)
For some income levels, your tax burden is higher if you are married than it would be if the two of you filed separately and were unmarried. That is called the marriage penalty.
The cost of a child far outweighs any tax burden that they would have. Women ALREADY think about the financial costs of having a child and that's why so many women seek an abortion.
Your entire reasoning is predicated on the perspective that society must maximize its workforce potential. But shouldnt this view become outdated with increasing levels of teleworking and automation? There should be less and less societal need for as many people as possible to work, so that the economic loss from stay-at-home parents should become less relevant. The trends for the future of work should make it easier to reconcile motherhood and a career, shouldn't they?
That's basically
's argument: right now, we still struggle to put everyone to work, but we will very rapidly run into the opposite problem and have trouble keeping people busy without work - and spending more time with one's own children seems like an obvious remedy.