After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 701

Her words were completely professional, but it made Garan turn to her.

Althea felt his stare and she looked at him. It took a moment for her to realize what the heated stare was about and she wanted to pinch his cheek.

"Pregnant women can’t make love for a certain number of months, apparently. It’ll be bad for the baby."

Garan’s face was unchanged and he nodded, "Yes, there are so many people in the territory, we should implement policies that would encourage couples to procreate."

Her lips twitched. Her husband can be very easy to talk to.

Mathilda, who was standing beside them (and watching them in amusement), giggled. "I agree with Garan. We can add incentives for couples to create families."

In Terran, plenty of countries saw declines in their younger population because the young adults simply didn’t want to make families. This created a major problem of a declining workforce but an increasing number of senior citizens.

In those countries, incentive schemes were implemented, as well as some guarantees. Although not all of them were applicable in their case, Mathilda already had a few policies in mind that may mirror a couple of those policies.

For instance, they could introduce child benefits and tax breaks. They would offer financial support to families who had babies until, say, the age of 3, which should give enough time for a family to adjust.

They could also lower the costs of childcare items and the like. They would provide some monthly copper allowance for the couple and guaranteed free ob-gyn care and baby supplies.

"This is a good time to implement policies," Althea said. "We are not only among the top in our tier—which may not be the same after we upgrade to Town—but I also heard it’d be much harder to procreate after a certain level."

This certain level varied from levels 25 to level 40, depending on the individual. Gaia, Oslo’s mother, seemed to have given birth to him around the latter level.

However, most people’s limits were much earlier and they didn’t want people holding back their own upgrades because they wanted children.

Mathilda smiled, taking it as an official instruction. "Leave this to us," she said, mentioning a few of the policies she had in mind. "I can tell you that in a few years, we would have thousands more children gracing our territory."

Althea and the others smiled at the image.

Ah, how lovely.

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Back to the school, the first day of classes was now about to start!!

The hundred children varied in age, but were divided into three classes which would eventually have tiers should the educators deem them necessary. The three tiers were nursery, elementary, and high school.

Only Theo was in the nursery class for now, but Beany decided to enroll him anyway. When they found out about this, Garan and Althea also decided to enroll the twins as honorary students in the following days.

Despite their age and since it was only three children, it should be easy for the teacher—a lovely young lady called Evelyn—to care for them.