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To: Lane3 who wrote (5009)	11/7/2005 9:03:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542139

"If the government were to pay for child rearing, I think it would be easier and more cost effective to pay educated professionals to rear the kids of incompetent parents, like in orphanages or perhaps to subsidize some communal arrangements, like assisted-living facilities for families." What you propose isn't a bad idea, but it doesn't really get at the same thing that I want. What you subsidize you get more of- and I'd like more children from competent intelligent functional people. At the moment the more educated women have fewer children, or no children, because our system actually penalizes them for having children (and when I say out system, I mean almost any job). I think that's stupid- and I don't care if it would be hard to change it, I think it needs changing.