A report from the Heritage Foundation, titled “Saving America by Saving the Family,” urges Trump and lawmakers “to save and restore the American family” through massive tax credits for families with more children while capping alimony payments, enacting strict work requirements on social benefit programs, discouraging online dating, creating marriage “bootcamp” classes and more. Sounds like old-time Russia, doesn’t it? Via the Washington Post:
The report suggests public-private partnerships to honor and provide monetary awards for every decade a couple remains married. It calls for a 16-year-old age limit on social media and certain AI chatbots, and further age restrictions on access to pornography, and it argues that “climate change alarmism” demoralizes young people and dissuades them from having children.
It asks policymakers to “commit to protecting life from fertilization” and states, “In the U.S., technologies such as fertilization and preimplantation genetic testing routinely manipulate or destroy human embryos.” Trump during his 2024 campaign pledged to require insurers to cover IVF treatment, declaring he would be “the fertilization president,” but his administration instead has announced plans to lower the cost of that care.
