The State Duma found a solution to the problem with demography: one word should be banned

How can we populate Russia? The question that worries now is more than “how to equip”. The demographic situation is in a grandiose decline, which has not happened since the dashing nineties. The answer is found within the walls of the State Duma. We just need to abolish the term “childfree”. And right from kindergarten, “start to monitor the gender of girls.” This decision is proposed by the first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Tatiana Butskaya. Posters, for example, should not depict families or women without children – this is the creative work of the Bashkir kurultai and State Duma deputy Elvira Aitkulova.

Right. If you hang appropriate posters along the roads, women will run to give birth. This is the message of the bill, which has already been submitted to the State Duma. The philosophy of hedonism also got there – look what they dared to enjoy life in Russia! And pernicious Westernism, of course, destroying traditional values.

Deputy Butskaya was even more specific in the abolition of the ideas of childfriance, referring also to the current law on the prohibition of anglicisms. According to the deputy, childfree is translated not as a banal “childlessness” or even “freedom from children”, but as “I don’t want children”. “Not “I can’t”, namely “I don’t want to,” the deputy emphasizes. “Cold blows from such women,” says Butskaya.

She voiced the idea of ​​banning childfree as a concept and a phenomenon alien to us before, long before the request for the use of borrowed words was legalized. Like, from early childhood, even in kindergarten, it is necessary to teach girls to play with dolls, mother daughters, and boys – with cars and with hammers. That’s when everything will work out with our demographics. Give birth – period!

“And as a thesis at school, you will have to hand over the genealogical tree of your family” … No, this is not news from the website of scoffers from the Web – this is still a continuation of deputy ideas. Family science is the initiative of Nina Ostanina, with whom she rushes about like with a written sack. Now the ban on childfree intersects very successfully with family science.

“Freshness and once again freshness should be the motto of every barman” (Bulgakov). “Reasonableness and again reasonableness” is the motto of the parliamentarian. You can’t, you know, sit in the State Duma at the same time and say that the translation of childfree is “I don’t want to.” And at the same time say that the root of “I don’t want” is “I can’t.” It has already been said to the deputies: if you are fighting against bad rhetoric, then start with yourself.

It is impossible, even having 10 classes of education, in our time to argue that if something is banned (words, posters with women, abortions or hobby games in childhood), everyone immediately rushes to do what is beneficial to the deputies. To give birth to children in tens, for example. Biology, psychology and even literature speak of a great, all-powerful instinct of motherhood, which in no way depends on the deputies.

And the reasons for childfree also have long been studied not by populists, but by literate people. Among the main ones are infertility, and the number of infertile couples is on the rise worldwide. A traumatic experience in the family or personal, because of which people are afraid to have children. Hereditary diseases that do not want to pass. Economic and political instability… But these are serious problems that require thoughtful study, large social programs, and budget spending. It’s easier to ban the word and hang pictures: “Let’s give birth!”.

A little more difficult, but also not very expensive, is to drag people of the 21st century into the past. In some very distant or fictional past – even in the “scoop” there were childless, under tax. There were also working women, with the right to abortion. And now there are calls to establish a patriarchy with eyes down, headscarves and unmeasured broods that a woman owes the state. And it pays for the first three capital capital.

I’m ashamed to ask, where are the buttons in this scheme with mothers and daughters and Domostroy’s hammers? Well, the very ones in IT and programming, which are so necessary now for absolutely everyone. The digitalization of schools has subsided, and international mobility has been anathema. In their “falling to the roots” the deputies and deputies, just like Shchedrin’s generals and generals, think about the people. But they are not trying about demographics – they dream of enslaving.

The parental instinct, laid down by wise nature, is stronger than any decrees and prohibitions. But if someone does not have it, and society forces them to give birth against their own will, then it turns out, to paraphrase the classic, “there is no sadder story in the world than that story about unwanted children …”

Published in the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” No. 29044 dated June 6, 2023

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