Positive Eugenics was used towards individuals who had high intelligence, great personalities, highly educated, with large salaries in order to encourage them to have more children out of ethical obligation. The intelligence and personalities of individuals can be measured using tests, over the years they have improved, but even since before eugenics these tests have existed. Laws started to come out around individuals’ income tax, their salaries and their family allowance which was all given out on dependence of having children or not if you had the characteristics listed above.
There are eight ways to convince individuals to have more children; the first one provides ‘Financial Incentives to have Children’ which provides fathers with an …show more content…
It is also known that more incentives were given out if the individual was paid more and had more children. ‘Selective Incentives for Childbearing’ is hard to design due to the fact that it is such a small group of individuals and they need to have all of the characteristic listed above in order to qualify, so picking these people out is not always easy. Paid maternity leave for mothers is also factored in as an incentive, giving them more time off with their children to raise them, up to almost eight years off if they bear three children. The fourth positive eugenic is ‘Taxation of the Childless’ where the taxes of a man or women with the criteria listed above would be increased because they do not have children, this has been around since the Roman Empire when fertility rates were low. Positive eugenics was used all over the world, there was different countries looked at especially the ‘Positive Eugenics in Singapore.’ The prime minister of Singapore, from 1959-1990, did not like the fact that well-educated women were having fewer children than the less educated, he decided to fix this by encouraging these women to get married and have more children by decreasing their taxes, making
There are eight ways to convince individuals to have more children; the first one provides ‘Financial Incentives to have Children’ which provides fathers with an …show more content…
It is also known that more incentives were given out if the individual was paid more and had more children. ‘Selective Incentives for Childbearing’ is hard to design due to the fact that it is such a small group of individuals and they need to have all of the characteristic listed above in order to qualify, so picking these people out is not always easy. Paid maternity leave for mothers is also factored in as an incentive, giving them more time off with their children to raise them, up to almost eight years off if they bear three children. The fourth positive eugenic is ‘Taxation of the Childless’ where the taxes of a man or women with the criteria listed above would be increased because they do not have children, this has been around since the Roman Empire when fertility rates were low. Positive eugenics was used all over the world, there was different countries looked at especially the ‘Positive Eugenics in Singapore.’ The prime minister of Singapore, from 1959-1990, did not like the fact that well-educated women were having fewer children than the less educated, he decided to fix this by encouraging these women to get married and have more children by decreasing their taxes, making