Philippines

I'm fine with people not having kids, also fine with people who want to have kids or a whole basketball team if they want. The only thing I wish people would do is if they want to have kids at least make sure they can afford mentally for parents and money wise. They can give their son's a quality education and a good enough starting in life to be able to contribute to the society or for them to live a decent life. Though we cannot control people for their decision. Future parents should be aware of the impact of having kids in general in terms of the country's economy, society and the environment. How it affects the value of each person. For example stretching of resources that the government and the economy can give back to each person. This both can apply to rise and lower of birthrate. I think at the moment now we're seeing decline of birthrate and how it will affect most of our state run social services, SSS, GSIS, Pag-Ibig, Philhealth and so on, Since we're not China, the government should look into automation, key thing here is invest in lowering our electricity bill this in turn allow businesses see alternative to manual labor. Then the government can tax this businesses using automation which then can be feedback to our social services. There is probably more ways to mitigate it. At the moment looks like our current government answer to the possible strained of our social services is Maharlika Fund, as for if it will be successful time will tell.