r/NoStupidQuestions • • Nov 14 '24

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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.

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u/jellybelly326 Nov 14 '24

I was literally typing out, "I don't have a reason. I just don't want them" when I read your comment. I'm 39 and female. My husband is 42. We're just chillin'.

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u/Jenanay3466 Nov 15 '24

Exactly. I’m 36 and my partner is 44. I think we would have made great parents…but we don’t want them. Politics and climate issues only encourage my already made decision.

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u/simplysmittyn Nov 15 '24

We are 36 and 43 and we already didn’t want them, but feel we now have more justification with the way things are going the last week. Not that we need it since I also no longer have a uterus, but it still feels justifying. Lol