I’m a bit confused.
The subject line of this thread is proposals to address the shidduch crises. But, the responses are predominantly about the effect of the financial burden of having children on shidduchim. While I certainly see a connection between the two issues, they aren’t one and the same.
To begin with, is it axiomatic that both problems must be solved at the same time or can they be addressed separately?
Regarding creative solutions to the financial burden of raising children, one radical approach might be to pool resources. Rather than each family being responsible for funding the education, clothing, feeding and medical needs of their children, the “community” takes on this responsibility instead, similar to the way the old socialist Kibbutzim used to do (do they still do that?).
Everyone – no matter how many or few children they have – is assessed an annual “tax” and the resulting pool of funds is used to pay for those things.
How the community is defined, how the assessments are performed, how the money is collected and managed and who is chosen to oversee so massive a responsibility are just some of the probably mind-boggling number of issues that would need to be agreed upon for this to take place.