America Magazine is run by Jesuit priests, among the most left-leaning of Catholic organizations, they're editorially both pro-labor and pro-child support.

As Catholics, they’re also pro-natalist, and are always going to support people having more children over less or no children, even if it’s not in the best interests of those having said children.

Ahh... using God’s name to guilt people into paying for their own self-destruction. Nothing new. The Bible says a lot about this type of people.

I like the Jesuits mark on history. It's one of the few religious group I kind of look up to. To a extend. They produced some pretty solid scientist like Teillard de chardin or Angelo Secchi.

But that's just a side note. --

If I'm correct your statement is that paying for pro-labor or pro-child support policies is paying for self-destruction. Could you elaborate?

Irrelevant. They have are two policy points. Firstly, they oppose tax exemptions for native mothers. Secondly, they support immigration.

Let's think critically here. Please tell me exactly what immigration has to do with children. Immigrants are mostly adult males. Native-born babies are ... babies. So, to sum up, they're against babies, and they're for adult males from other places.

And then there is the 'pro-labor' policy. They suggest to increase the number of adult males in the labor force. What effect will that have on wages? So to sum up their policy: more workers at lower wages. Hmm... sounds a lot like every other media outlet that supports gutting the middle class and farming the poor.

Sorry; you've been lied to.

Problem is that we're still in a zero-sum game that the CCP wants to play.

"The data released on Monday, from the Chinese ministry of public security, showed the number of new birth registrations in 2020 was 10.035 million, compared with 11.8 million in 2019. The 2019 figure marked the lowest point since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949."

"Zhang Lijia, a writer, journalist and social commentator, said there was a change in attitude and many women – especially urban-living and highly educated – no longer regarded marriage and parenthood as “necessary passages in life or the essential ingredients of a happy life”."

“In another word, it is about choice. Better education, higher income and more career options grant these women the freedom to choose a lifestyle they desire. They are assertive enough to resist the pressure from their parents to produce children. And the society is more tolerant than before.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/china-birthrat...

Yeah but they still have over 4x the population of us, hah.

Exactly this. The hand wringing over something whose cause is so obvious is just very frustrating. Does the author have any idea how much child care costs per week? This is what you get when all social costs are forced onto the young, poor and overworked.

Father of 5 (grown) here: My spouse was disabled. That meant in good (healthwise) years, I had some locked in childcare.

Even with that ~advantage, most years were spent in a constant cycle of barely keeping the utilities on and housing paid - or not.