Source: @theskimm – “Policy ideas on how to support women and moms? Put us in coach. Influenced by the growing “pronatalist” movement, the Trump administration this week seems to be exploring ways to encourage higher birth rates. Their Pinterest board of policy ideas includes everything from reserving some government-funded scholarships for married people with kids to offering classes on the menstrual cycle. The New York Times reports the president is weighing the policies to boost birth rates even as his administration has already cut funding for fertility research and maternal health, and has proposed nothing on paid leave, affordable childcare, or the rising maternal death rate. So yeah, we’d say birth rates reaching a historic low — and more women staying single — makes a whole lot of sense.”