Reply #267: So, you think those extra kids somehow magically require less?

[Pithlet]

The problem is you aren't looking at the bigger picture, which is the main reason things like these tax breaks are enacted. They aren't enacted as a reward for the parents. They're for the children as individuals AND for greater good for all of society. It doesn't matter to society if you and I as adults came from a household of two or twenty does it, in terms of how we contribute?. No. So what good does it do it or us to punish us as individuals at any stage of our lives because of the size of the family we came from? The answer is it doesn't do anyone any good. It won't solve the population problem one iota.

No, there are other more productive (no pun intended) ways of dealing with population issues. Education being key.