Kiwi Kids Grant: Babies are Gifts, Not Cash Cows

A family advocate is welcoming the move from political parties to take our plummeting birth rate seriously, but questions whether the policies on offer are viable solutions.

Commenting on New Zealand First's "Kiwi Kids Grant" policy - which would pay parents $15,000 per child for their first three children if born or raised here - Brendan Malone highlighted similar overseas incentives that have failed to return birth rates to a level of population replacement. He suggests that deeper cultural and economic factors need to be addressed, rather than cash incentives alone.

The LifeNet speaker also warned against a welfare state mentality for individual family decisions, saying children are gifts of human hope, not "economic units".

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