user107477: Is there any plan to add a feature so that you can perform transactions that will be spent in the future and stored on the network? For example, I want to send some bitcoin to my kids after each N block so they will slowly receive a long time after I may already be dead. But I don’t want to send them the whole balance at once.

user101498: About the phrasing, there is really no "plan" on Bitcoin as there would be if a centralised authority governed the protocol. Instead, there are proposals and sometimes supermajority consensus for the network to deploy a proposal.
Regarding your question you can already do this today using the locktime features of Bitcoin transaction.
You can either:

Hand your child a transaction with a nLockTime set to block X (so that the transaction cannot be confirmed before the block number X).
Create a transaction which can be confirmed but cannot be spent before the block number X (CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY).
Create a transaction which can be confirmed but cannot be spent before N blocks are mined after your transaction (CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY, relative locktime).

In either way (I omitted an even more involved one purposefully), you (and your child) definitely need a specific software to create and recognize this type of transaction.
Learn more (and get more links) on the Bitcoin wiki page about locktimes.

107477: <p>Is there any plan to add a feature so that you can perform transactions that will be spent in the future and stored on the network? For example, I want to send some bitcoin to my kids after each N block so they will slowly receive a long time after I may already be dead. But I don’t want to send them the whole balance at once.</p>
 101498: <p>About the phrasing, there is really no &quot;plan&quot; on Bitcoin as there would be if a centralised authority governed the protocol. Instead, there are <a href="http://github.com/bitcoin/bips" rel="nofollow noreferrer">proposals</a> and sometimes supermajority consensus for the network to deploy a proposal.</p>
<p>Regarding your question you can already do this today using the locktime features of Bitcoin transaction.<br />
You can either:</p>
<ul>
<li>Hand your child a transaction with a nLockTime set to block X (so that the transaction cannot be confirmed before the block number X).</li>
<li>Create a transaction which can be confirmed but cannot be spent before the block number X (<code>CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY</code>).</li>
<li>Create a transaction which can be confirmed but cannot be spent before N blocks are mined after your transaction (<code>CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY</code>, relative locktime).</li>
</ul>
<p>In either way (I omitted an even more involved one purposefully), you (and your child) definitely need a specific software to create and recognize this type of transaction.</p>
<p>Learn more (and get more links) on the <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Timelock" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bitcoin wiki page about locktimes</a>.</p>
