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>>10897465
The market. Poor people should stop being rewarded for having children. Being a single mother is a career plan for some people, you get a house and a steady income, all because 'think of the children'. This needs to stop. The burden should fall on the irresponsible and there family. If they can't care for them, raise in orphanages and offer (voluntary) permanent sterilisation/long term birth control. Stop the incentive. The government should mandate 24hr childcare at work places/universities (think of all those female grad students delaying children until their 30s) and provide a tax incentive (2 or 3% deduction per child).
These soft policies would at least help reverse the trend. If you wanted to get serious eugenically then you could start proper sperm banks that focused on IQ, health and success, and have rigorous screening that highly rewarded the best donors.
Finally you need to change the whole education/propaganda around children. Currently we're being pumped with 'children ruin your life, don't get teen pregnant' during school, then children are destroying planet via climate change is the regular message in upper class newspapers. Instead talk about how important families are for the economy, the best time to start a family is with a steady partner in your early 20s, older fathers/mothers increase genetic abnormalities etc.

If I had the option i'd also definitely put down 10K for preimplantation embryo selection as well.

Relevant.