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That’s a valid reason and all but I’d also add that life is just very expensive, both parents need to work to make ends meet and lack of time available for child care. If you add housework imbalance you get South Korea level fertility.
There is a pent up demand for kids when looking at “How many do you want?” vs “How many do you have?” but having them is irrational for most people. It takes a long while for parents to become financially secure, usually comes at 30+ years and then you ask one of the parents to take a massive career hit and add 3h of work per day to the schedule.
If the gov really wants babies we really need to reduce work hours to 30/week for both parents.
Where’s the part about impending fascism, 72+hours work weeks, and the housing crisis?
Panel 4
“I love my unborn children far too much to subject them to the dumpsterfire of a planet we’ve built for them.”
I can’t help but feel guilty every time a friend or coworker or someone makes the announcement that they’re having a kid. We owe that kid better, but shit’s gonna be WAY worse by the time they’re old enough to despise us for it.
Much love to any parents reading this. You’ve got a hard job.
People need to travel and play GTA6.
Because I don’t like them and they would ruin my lifestyle
But what if I tell you to have them now because you’ll want them tomorrow? Don’t you want today what you don’t yet want and cannot accurately be predicted to want tomorrow???
If that logic doesn’t work, maybe I can tell you about how miserable my children made me, and then cap my dumbest statement ever with an even dumber “you gotta cuz I had to.”
While they were growing up, summer often meant “too hot for clothes, but the water’s cool!” … now its too hot for fuckin, the water’s often warm like piss, and that’s not just in summer.
Getting snowed-in without heat so you gotta huddle-up(naked? NAKED!) for warmth is out too, and sadly not because the bills are paid or the grid’s more reliable. Good job Dad!!
the cost of living (especially housing fuck), the systematic erosion of education, and the lack of any hope for their future are the big things stopping me. i barely have any hope for my own future and ive got over 30 years of a head start over any potential kids. the worst part is i really want kids and to give them a good life i just dont think i can in this world.
People in general always tend to have fewer kids during hard times, whatever they perceive as hard times. But some people clearly keep having them, because the human race still exists even though we’ve always had plagues, wars, famines, etc. They kept having kids through the Ice Age FFS. There’s no point saying people now “aren’t having kids” - of course they are, just not as much as before.
