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Less kids born into poverty if we do not help support them?

What world are you coming from? You realize that they no longer pay more for kids after, I believe, the third, so this is a lame comment.

To turn the table, if we were to regress even further where kids were not guaranteed some sort of medical care and our infant and childhood mortality rate started to climb back up, how much you wanna bet we start going back to "old school" methods in which more kids = a greater chance of having some survive to adulthood?

They still HAVE this in some of the very countries you describe where "we should us them as an example of true 'poverty'" (paraphrase). Seems like true poverty does not make a good prophylactic...

The key here is simple. Money is not needed to be thrown at a problem, but money is not to be eliminated either. Unfortunately, we do not seem to have many that will agree to APPLYING the money in ways that work rather than just shuffling it around to as many different administrators as possible before it gets thrown out the door of a passing crop duster.