# Is There Any Practical Way to Increase the Birthrate?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 6, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-practical-way-to-increase-the-birthrate/1012655 "2025-01-06T20:41:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-practical-way-to-increase-the-birthrate/1012655/123 "2025-01-07T16:29:55Z")

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BTW, I’m glad this topic is receiving increased attention everywhere. It’s pretty clear, at least among the thoughtful of us, that balancing conflicting pressures – individual liberties, economic necessities, environmental impact – will be a complicated task in the free world.

For a more expansive and free-ranging discussion about population decline in general, see [Dewey\_Finn’s multi-year-spanning thread here.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-population-declining/943197)

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