Title: Seems backwards to me
Product review: I don't really understand Burkett's thesis at all. It seems to me that raising future generations is a social obligation. Someone has to do it. One could reasonably argue that society ought to pay all of the costs of raising children. Instead, in our society, 90% of the costs and the work are borne by those who volunteer to be parents.Burkett does a reasonable job of analyzing how society subsidizes child raising in various rather minimal ways. But our taxes subsidize research, oil exploration, military defense, and all sorts of other things that are socially desirable. If your house catches fire, taxes pay a hundred percent of the cost of putting out the fire, not just a small fraction. As long as raising children costs more than the financial benefits (and it certainly does, by a long shot), why should we think that those subsidies are too large? Burkett doesn't have a reason.
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