After decades of restrictive population policies, many prosperous countries are facing a different problem: there aren’t enough kids, and the age pyramid is becoming alarmingly like a tree with an ever-expanding ‘crown’ of elderly people. Now, governments are encouraging us to have kids, but this raises a question that’s difficult for even the most competent government to solve.
The babysitting issue. Because, for example, relatives aren’t always thrilled when asked to babysit for free. And even less so when you try to trick them into babysitting, as actually happened to the user u/Apprehensive-Fox2655, the author of our story today.
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