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Danmel

(5,395 posts)
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 06:38 AM Monday

Baby bonuses on the way!!

The White House is soliciting policy proposals designed to give women incentives to have more children, a priority for many social conservatives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/politics/baby-bonuses-fertility-planning-trump-aides-assess-ideas-to-boost-birthrate.html
Ah, replacement theory at work.
I think trump is a prime reason people don't want kids. I don't think 5,000 will help with no schools, health care and a drowning planet.

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Baby bonuses on the way!! (Original Post) Danmel Monday OP
Only if they can draft the policy to only apply to white kids. meadowlander Monday #1
Beat me to it. no_hypocrisy Monday #2
Has anyone bought the 23&Me database? TommyT139 Monday #4
Hitler establishes Mother's Cross to encourage German women to procreate no_hypocrisy Monday #3
Something similar in the Soviet Union. Crunchy Frog Monday #5
And no Head Start. MLAA Monday #6

meadowlander

(4,894 posts)
1. Only if they can draft the policy to only apply to white kids.
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 06:42 AM
Monday

Can you imagine the party of the "welfare queen" getting on board otherwise?

TommyT139

(1,279 posts)
4. Has anyone bought the 23&Me database?
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 06:58 AM
Monday

...Or did the DOGE-bros just help themselves to that too?

no_hypocrisy

(51,284 posts)
3. Hitler establishes Mother's Cross to encourage German women to procreate
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 06:47 AM
Monday

On December 16, 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother’s Cross, to encourage women of "pure" German origin to increase the size of their families and grow the population of the Third Reich.

The Nazis started such encouragement early. When members the League of German Girls (a wing of of the Hitler Youth movement) turned 18, they became eligible for a branch called Faith and Beauty, which trained these girls in the art of becoming ideal mothers. One component of that ideal was fecundity. And so each year, gold medals were awarded to women with eight children or more, silver medals to women with six to seven, and bronze medals to women with five. The crosses were distributed between 1938 and 1944.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/december-16/hitler-institutes-the-mothers-cross

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/GetImage.aspx?IDMF=89e7d013-a027-495f-b2a2-b985a61e6d4d&w=400&h=533&src=mc

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/gold-mothers-cross

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