> they led to a permanent reduction of approximately 8,000 births in the same year, and 145,000 fewer births since 1980
And miniscule, contributing a fraction of a percentage point reduction in the number of children born per year.
We have a dev team in one of the big cities of New Zealand, we need people, and we interviewed everyone available (yes, this must be on site).
When you have jobs, childcare, education, entertainment, government, etc, all inside cities, people migrate towards cities.
I wish I could move further away from the big city but I'd get paid third of my salary, my SO didn't found any openings, and I'd have to buy a second car so my kid could attend their school.
I see what you're saying but not every job is available outside.
Today there are many narrow car seat options on the market, so 3 across seating is possible in full size sedans, but not compact cars. A European company makes a 3-across and 4-across car seat, but it's illegal in the US by accident.
The cost of daycare and education is so immensely larger than the cost of a car, that I don't think cost of a car is a factor. The important consideration with having a child, or another, is how could you possibly afford the daycare and later school.
The car seat related drop predates high daycare costs. In some places, high daycare costs aren't the primary concern: it's infant daycare waiting lists longer than 9 months.
Grandparents used to look after young children. Maybe we should incentivize that structure again? I'm open to other ideas.
Right now, childcare can't be affordable without the workers being paid exploitative low amounts. We should fix that, that's exactly the sort of problem that having a society is for.
Lead in the drinking water is okay. Last resort human antibiotics in the farmed animals are OK.
Seems like school shootings are OK.
I wouldn't use "illegal in the US" as something necessarily negative.
The full bench car seat is significantly safer than single seats. But it cannot be tested on the testing sleds in North America, and the wording of the regulations implicitly forbids multi-child seats anyway in many ways. Unfortunately, fixing the regulations is probably ~10 years and ~20 million dollars in lobbying.
Example from a Google search (don't know if they are good)
2. Those must be professionally installed
3. Those are pricey
4. Those are, quite by accident, illegal in North America
In my country we have had in the last decades the following - car seats, prohibition small children to roam free, prohibition for kids under 12 to be left alone at home, the size of the city apartments has shrunk substantially - from two bedroom to one. The impossibility of stay at home parent. You can add to the list.
https://www.amazon.com/Graco-SlimFit3-Forward-Highback-Kunni...
You can get car seats that do three across in a normal sedan though
Only in the last few years, and they require a full size sedan.