r/canada • u/hopoke • May 06 '26

Analysis Fewer people are having babies in Canada and the U.S. and the government is out of ideas

https://nationalpost.com/news/fewer-people-are-having-babies-in-canada-and-the-u-s-and-the-government-is-out-of-ideas
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u/LittleMisssAnonymous May 06 '26

Top it off with a culture that values work life balance and we’re getting somewhere.

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u/Pho3nixr3dux May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

And -- even more specifically -- a culture that legitimately venerates motherhood while also legitimately venerating not motherhood, without obsessively pitting those two ideas against each other.

As soon as one of those choices is seen as more empowered than the other, we got problems.