Mothers Don’t Need Medals— They Need a Better World For Their Children

Mother’s Day is here, and while President Trump may seem unlikely to celebrate this occasion, his administration has recently sailed several proposals to stimulate motherhood – or, more precisely, giving birth. There’s $ 5,000 “Children’s bonus”For every American mother free classes Teaching women on their menstrual cycles and National Medal Medal For moms who have at least six children. (Want to guess Mode Also awarded with such a medal?)

As usual, Trump suggested inappropriate solutions to a very real problem. He is definitely right that every American should afford to raise children and what programs As social security depend on stable demographics. But, of course, each other operation He took over to undermine gender equality, which could suggest that this sudden interest in the mother’s well -being is less sincere. That is why progressives have an opening to disperse what its ideological monopoly on family politics considers.

The roots of the fertility crisis are engaged in problems with bread and brains that have long become the sphere of the Democrats. We are born Press the record low Not because the nation became “almost pathologically anti-baby” like JD Vance claimed The New York Times. Instead, Surveys showed Such parents want to possess home, pay off student debt and have money for childcare before creating a family. Still the average age buyer rose on 56Almost twice as much as it was 40 years ago. And 43 percent of young people Currently, it carries student debt compared to 28 percent in 1993. The problem is not missing – this is too great interest that is paid Write down high loans.

But most of the flooding of the Trump administration are unoriginal protests from the undemocratic leaders they admire. In 2017, Vladimir Putin declared “A Decree of Childhood in Russia”, an innocent name for a program that calls for everything: from protecting so -called family values ​​to encourage marital attempts during interruptions to the workplace to censorship propaganda. Meanwhile, Victor Orban devoted 5 percent GDP Hungary The peritatory policywhich include nationalized IVF and lifelong tax publications for mothers with three children. These men transfer the authoritarian tradition that the original strongman, Benita Mussolini, whose “Battle for childbirth”The literal fights that reduced Europe’s population on 20 million people.

That is why those who really care about the real solutions would be reasonable to start offering their plans, and in fact, some already have. The fact that Trump administration did not plan from plutocrats, they took the progressives, and therefore “children’s bonuses” sound a lot as “as”baby bonds“Proposed in 2021 by the Senators of Baldwin Temphs and Cora Booker and Ayana Presley. The legislation would put $ 1,000 on a savings account for every American child. The American American Salvation Plan also Almost double Tax loan on the child who Almost halved The child’s poverty level. Although making this extension permanent received two -party supportIt was ultimately killed The central triangle Joe Manchin.

Four years later, the Democrats have the opportunity to adopt a truly progressive agenda that acts in the double category as a family platform. Bernie Sanders has long called Cancellation of all student debt; Elizabeth Warren conducted agitation Universal Child Care; and Alexandria Okosio Cartes was one of the first politicians on the Capitol hill to Offer three months of paid parental vacation To all her employee. Congress Progressive Kauk also called a whole raft of politics This would reduce the cost of life: from expanding Medicaid to investing $ 250 billion in affordable housing. They understand that true relief will come not from distributing medals, but from being involved in the struggle for working families.

However, even if the Democrats control the progressive populist revival, because Franklin Delan Roosevelt is likely to be not enough to raise birth. In the Social Democracy as Finland and Sweden – that Suggest 13 months paid parental vacation and cover 90 percent preschoolers remains below the substitution level.

Does this show that the problem can be more fundamental? One sociologist, Dr. Karen Benjamin Hutsa, has attributes this dilemma To fears: “People really have to feel confident in the future.” But or it is 60 percent of young people Feeling very worried about climate change or 80 percent of new mothers Feel lonelyEither 90 percent of voters Feeling that American policy is brokenThe state of the world seems not too favorable for internal bliss. The reaction of the right to this anxiety is embodied by Elon Musk which continues to strangle children With women he meets X to create a “brood” at the Legion level to the Apocalypse.

To help the look out, the Apocalypse said what should be offered is a real family policy that benefits parents and problems. Doing this, there is an opportunity to convince the Americans that the next generation can still have a lighter future than the latter. Or at least in that progressives have a more convincing vision of American families than the one whose budget is fast Take the billions From the children’s education. foodand Health.

One thing is to encourage. Americans deserve leaders who will fight for those children after birth.