Epistatacadam on Nostr: Children are affected profoundly by the circumstances that surround their parents ...

Children are affected profoundly by the circumstances that surround their parents from before they are conceived and it continues right through to adulthood. If you want to generate an unhealthy, unproductive population, then creating conditions of hardship and near starvation is the best way to do it. Investment in early years pays itself back very quickly.
Even during the war mums to be got extra rations, now they get told benefits will be capped if they have more than two.