Trump Admin Preparing Plan to Boost Nuclear Families by Paying Stay-at-Home Moms: Report

Should we be paying for parenting? The Trump administration has a plan to incentivize parents to stay at home.

The collapse of the nuclear family is something worrisome to Americans, who understand that a stable country starts at home. Children need parents who care for them and raise them. Women, however, find themselves working and paying for child care or foregoing family life altogether for a career, rather than trying to balance those roles.

GovFacts.org reported in August that the birth rate in the United States sits at 1.6 children per woman. That is considerably lower than the 2.1 needed to reach replacement.

Now, through a policy advocated by Vice President J.D. Vance, officials are looking at allowing families with a stay-at-home spouse to collect child care subsidies, according to a report by the New York Times.

The program would use money from an existing fund for working parents.

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