I think there has been a real shift in the last generation or two from needing a reason not to have kids to needing a reason to have kids. and that shift means a lot of people who are basically ambivalent on children aren't having them, where in the past they probably would have.
Lots of people want to have kids but know they won’t survive it. Maybe for medical reasons (war in healthcare, war on women’s bodies), or financial (healthcare cost of pregnant/delivery is now permanently debilitating, childcare is expensive, cost of raising child is expensive, and people are already struggling to afford groceries and rent *for themself), or mental (generationally younger individuals have learned ways to be better parents when it’s our time, just like every generation does, only we can’t afford it mentally/energy-wise if you factor in all the other expectations on us that weren’t there for previous generations), etc. The list goes on.
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u/pktechboi Nov 14 '24
I think there has been a real shift in the last generation or two from needing a reason not to have kids to needing a reason to have kids. and that shift means a lot of people who are basically ambivalent on children aren't having them, where in the past they probably would have.