I recently read an article about Japan’s declining birth rate…
*This is parts of it: *
*To combat a shrinking population, a small town in northern Japan has decided to give a **cash award **worth about $9,600 to each female resident who has a third child, an official said Friday.
To be eligible, the women must have lived in Yamatsuri town for more than a year, town hall spokesman Eiichi Takanobu said.
Yamatsuri, where the population has fallen from 7,400 a decade ago to 7,000 this year, is not alone among Japanese towns who are losing people.
To encourage families to have more children, the central government has started** building more day-care centers and encouraged men to take paternity leave.**
It is rare, however, for a town to offer its female residents a large sum for having a baby.
Yamatsuri will hand mothers a lump sum of $4,800 within three months after giving birth to a third baby. The women will then be given $480 each year between the child’s second and 11th birthday, Takanobu said.
This is what happens when we tamper with Mother Nature and God’s laws. What next?*
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Getting to the point, I never knew what my babies would be but never once did I say the “embryo or Fetus” or “it” I call the baby “the baby” from the minute I knew, as did many mothers in the past. But it would have been nice to know.
