There is merit to the proposal to minimize if not eliminate the welfare state if one assumes that its current beneficiaries will respond rationally to the resultant economic incentives.
Unfortunately, as behavioral economics reflects, that will not universally be the case.
Arguably, the misguided policies of the Great Society incentivized the lower economic strata to bear out-of-wedlock children to maximize welfare payments, which exacerbated the societal ills that bedeviled it to this day. Clinton’s welfare reforms helped ameliorate this tragic policy backfire, but the issue remains unresolved.
I agree with you that the supply of adoption candidates would exceed demand.
The answer to the issue lies in a cultural and moral renaissance that restores traditional sexual values,!recognizing that the purpose of human sexuality is procreation, not recreation, that it should be confined to marriage, and that the traditional two-parent family structure (one male and one female) is the optimal structure for the benefit of our progeny.
Bryan himself has written about welfare recipients behaving irrationally, which resulted in his co-writer being at the end of a cancellation campaign recently:
Bryan's proposal is a free win though. It literally doesn't cost any money. In fact, you save quite a bit of money, on top of the positive externalities.
Before abortion was illegal, adoption was very common. They called it the baby scoop era. My father was adopted after being born to a teenage mother that brought him to term.
It's medically necessary for adopted children to get stem cell infusions from their adoptive parents to make them be their real parents. Otherwise they'll all kill themselves.
“many white families are unwilling to adopt Black or Hispanic children”
More or less unwilling that black or Hispanic families are to adopt white children?
There is merit to the proposal to minimize if not eliminate the welfare state if one assumes that its current beneficiaries will respond rationally to the resultant economic incentives.
Unfortunately, as behavioral economics reflects, that will not universally be the case.
Arguably, the misguided policies of the Great Society incentivized the lower economic strata to bear out-of-wedlock children to maximize welfare payments, which exacerbated the societal ills that bedeviled it to this day. Clinton’s welfare reforms helped ameliorate this tragic policy backfire, but the issue remains unresolved.
I agree with you that the supply of adoption candidates would exceed demand.
The answer to the issue lies in a cultural and moral renaissance that restores traditional sexual values,!recognizing that the purpose of human sexuality is procreation, not recreation, that it should be confined to marriage, and that the traditional two-parent family structure (one male and one female) is the optimal structure for the benefit of our progeny.
Bryan himself has written about welfare recipients behaving irrationally, which resulted in his co-writer being at the end of a cancellation campaign recently:
https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-anti-intellectual-university
"it gives you a deeper and broader perspective on parenthood"
Deeper and broader than what? How? More than having kids the old-fashioned way? Do tell!
Struck me too. Different, sure. But "deeper and broader" implies it encompasses the old-fashioned way and adds to it.
Judith Harris had both a biological & adopted daughter, which helped inspire her "The Nurture Assumption".
Did Harris say anything about "deeper and broader"?
There are deontological reasons to end the welfare state before even considering the effect on adoptions.
Bryan's proposal is a free win though. It literally doesn't cost any money. In fact, you save quite a bit of money, on top of the positive externalities.
Before abortion was illegal, adoption was very common. They called it the baby scoop era. My father was adopted after being born to a teenage mother that brought him to term.
It's medically necessary for adopted children to get stem cell infusions from their adoptive parents to make them be their real parents. Otherwise they'll all kill themselves.
holy ____ it's Bram Cohen