Cash for Kids: Can Bribes Budge Birthrate

Tim Wilson of The Maxim Institute weighs in on New Zealand First's "Kiwi Kids Grant" policy offering $5,000 a year for the first three years of a child's life to help counter New Zealand's declining birth rate.

While praising the policy for correctly targeting a real demographic problem, he questions its effectiveness and diagnostic accuracy, which misses underlying cultural and moral shifts. The thinktank director suggests community-level family and church support are more likely to encourage social transformation.

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