And difficult. Also may have something to do with it. And employers seem to think any time. For them is wasted.

My kids are the best thing I ever did, but I won’t pretend it was cheap and easy. I also won’t fault anyone who hesitates based on the huge effort of time and money.

If governments want to fix this crisis, they need to make it much easier and cheaper to have kids. Like the article mentions, small measures won’t be enough. However the article glosses over the time factor - there’s a huge societal inertia to overcome and the population changes won’t be apparent to most until it’s too late