{"id":6521,"date":"2025-05-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:51","slug":"opinion-have-a-baby-get-5-000-a-good-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/opinion-have-a-baby-get-5-000-a-good-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Have a baby, get $5,000 \u2014 a good deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6521\" class=\"elementor elementor-6521\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62f2093e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"62f2093e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-39e38c5b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"39e38c5b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has offered to give $5,000 to every woman who has a baby. If you\u2019re poor, especially abjectly poor, this probably sounds like a good deal. It\u2019s not.<\/p><p>At this writing, he has not promised prenatal care, government-paid delivery and hospitalization, paid parental leave from work, pediatric services, or free or partly-subsidized child care. Most advanced economies offer the whole package.<\/p><h2>Overpopulated world<\/h2><p>In 2025, the world is overpopulated and every major problem (including war) that I can think of is directly or indirectly attributable to this truth. Over millennia, with short interruptions like war, the \u201cBlack Plague\u201d or \u201cSpanish Flu,\u201d the world has experienced a birth rate that has been higher than its death rate. This led to a slow accumulation of living people. Then came the Industrial Revolution around the middle of the Eighteenth Century. That was the fuse that set off the \u201cpopulation bomb.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has offered to give $5,000 to every woman who has a baby. If you\u2019re poor, especially abjectly poor, this probably sounds like a good deal. It\u2019s not. At this writing, he has not promised prenatal care, government-paid delivery and hospitalization, paid parental leave from work, pediatric services, or free or partly-subsidized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[32,37,39,40],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-culture","tag-finance","tag-government","tag-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}