Child benefits as public‑good transfers

Frame and implement child cash support not as targeted anti‑poverty aid but as a universal public transfer akin to public schooling: a big one‑time birth payment, generous paid‑leave in year one, then stepped monthly support with an income phase‑out to keep program politically affordable. — Recasting child payments as a universal public good reframes debates about welfare, natality, and class redistribution — changing who feels entitled to benefits and simplifying the politics of family support.