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Titan Invictus, Simone, Industry Americus, Malcolm, Torsten Savage and Octavian George

Shut the fuck up.

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Still, the Collinses’ ideas about what will encourage people to have more babies are unconventional, even among other pronatalists.

They dismiss solutions such as more housing or more money as “unrealistic.” And just because a policy is pro-family — universal day care, for example, or extended parental leave — doesn’t necessarily mean it will encourage people to have more children, they say.

Instead, they’re pushing for deregulating the day-care industry (“We have data on this,” Malcolm said, sharing a Substack link) and removing car-seat mandates (another Substack link). Requiring parents to have car seats discourages people from having big families, because you can only fit in so many seats, he argued. “In a number of states, you need to be in a car seat until you’re, like, 16, right?”