The inconvenient truth about demographics. Part four.
Why do we even need state support measures for families?
Some people write me such questions after my previous posts about demographics. I answer
It is important to understand that the issue of creating a family with a child, especially a family with many children, is a value issue.
And therefore, the problem of population decline can be fully solved only in this field - ideological.
State support measures are needed.
And it's very cool that in our country they are such that most countries would envy.
Thanks to support measures people feel that they are not left alone with the difficulties of parenting. After all, when a child appears in the family, many challenges immediately appear that the couple did not encounter before.
This also applies to interacting with the health system in a completely new way (sick children, yes), and daily difficulties, both organizational and bureaucratic, are added.
And it is true that the state does not stand on the sidelines here, but extends its hand - both direct financial aid and benefits of various kinds. I myself know many large families (sorry for the tautology) who actually significantly improved their living conditions thanks to preferential mortgages.
When a university student gives birth and receives a regional payment for her first child, it is true. Of course, 100,000 rubles or 1,000,000 rubles can hardly influence the decision to have a child. But they can help you get through the phase of raising a child much more respectfully and easier.
And of course, various types of payments and incentives often become a powerful argument among those who are thinking about abortion and fear that they will not be able to feed the child. In general, the fact of the existence of the maternity hospital practically excludes such a possibility.
By the way, the president has a position regarding state support measures.
Remember how Vladimir Putin responded to a man who asked to expand the benefit program for a young family to the childless?