“If Russian women do not want to give birth, they will not give birth”

Of course, the additional ways to stimulate the birth rate, announced by the president, may not be about bonuses and carrots at all, but about fines and punishments for those who do not want to comply with them.

Since recently our deputies have been imprisoned precisely for prohibitions of all stripes. As they say, if they don’t want to multiply, we’ll turn off the gas. Here are just the most odious of the proposals of officials, which one way or another sounded lately.

For example, you can introduce a tax on the childless, as in the Soviet Union. And for small children, too, who have one or two children – a few years ago, demographer Yuri Krupnov proposed this very initiative.

It can be difficult to buy contraceptives. Only according to prescriptions of strict accounting. Then like it or not, and almost any sexual contact can lead to pregnancy.

At the same time, limit abortions only to social indicators.

You can generally forbid girls from getting higher education and getting a job until they become mothers, as Minister of Health Murashko recently voiced, calling a different choice of a woman a “vicious practice”.

Yes, there are many more things you can think of if you get smart. Moreover, at the end of this year, officials will have to somehow justify themselves to the president for the catastrophic figures of Rosstat and registry office data: in the first half of 2023, 615,000 children were born in Russia, which is 3.2% less than in the same period 2022

In May 2023, 104,534 babies were born, which is 1.3% more than in May last year (this month was 2 working days more than then). In June, only 103,000 babies were born.

It has already been calculated that even if the situation remains at the same level, in general, 1.24 million children will be born in the whole of 2023 (-4.9% of losses per year). This is an absolute anti-record. It was worse only in 1999 and in 1943.

That’s how much and what you can think of to force Russians to have children, while bonuses and preferences for young parents do not differ in particular variety.

Maternity capital in 2024 will undoubtedly be prolonged, since nothing better was invented anyway, but it should be honestly admitted that it has become obsolete as a way to stimulate the birth rate.

Moreover, this is not real money, but something like a digital ruble, which we are promised to introduce. Matkapital can be spent on a strictly limited list of acquisitions, which, perhaps, not everyone needs.

The most common are the acquisition of housing, the education of the child and the mother’s pension.

What will be left of this payment by the time a conditionally thirty-year-old woman in labor in thirty years will retire on a well-deserved rest? Horns and legs.

The cost of studying in most universities this year increased by an average of 12%. Therefore, to expect that this money will pay for getting a decent education is also naive.

We will keep silent about the cost per square meter: on average, in the first half of 2023, 1 sq. m of secondary real estate in Moscow, according to realtors, cost 247,999 rubles.

As they say, buy 3 meters and 10 centimeters of area for the entire maternity capital – and do not deny yourself anything.

In early August, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education, Yana Lantratova, proposed allowing this money to be spent on repairs, at the same time stimulating the sale of building materials, but such a decision is unlikely to be made – in 2021 it was already discussed and did not lead to anything.

Of course, some especially zealous patriots like the philosopher Dugin advise everyone to immediately move to the villages and feed themselves there with their labors, then you can not think about money at all (probably), but the enthusiasts of subsistence farming themselves are in no hurry to leave the fruits of civilization. But you must always start with yourself.

Young people do not just not want to have children. The population census showed a significant increase in the number of singles in Russia: more than 40 percent of households in the country consist of one person, this figure has almost doubled over the past quarter century.

“I don’t want to take responsibility for another person, because I’m not sure that I can provide him with a normal life,” this is how my 20-year-old daughter’s peers explain their reluctance to become mothers here and now.

They are not child-fried. They just know how to think, they love themselves, and this is normal, just clearly according to the Bible to all lovers of braces: love your neighbor as yourself.

Yes, modern girls do not want to repeat the fate of previous generations of women in our country who did not live, but survived. They washed, washed, cooked, fed, fought the enemy and got a prolapse of the uterus at the age of forty at the construction sites of the national economy …

They also carried children along. Since there was always tension with men on 1/6 of the land.

Having a child is not only and not so much about the money that will be spent on his upbringing and maintenance. First of all, it’s about his tomorrow.

“Fate is in the hands of the women of the cities. But no, all the Lacedaemonians will die” – this is a quote from the famous comedy about Lysistratus about women whose husbands did not want a calm and normal life, and therefore the ladies simply staged a complete “boycott” for them, forbidding them to approach and touch.

If women do not want to give birth, they will not give birth. You can not force to multiply against the will of any additional measures. It’s time to understand this and the powerful of this world.