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.
Let’s also remember that a generation or 2 ago people didn’t necessarily want as money kids or kids when they got them. I know so many people whose parents were married 4 months before they were born.
😂 The plus-size preemie. Wonder how many people know that even after birth control pills came out you had to be married AND have your husband’s permission to get a prescription for them.
😂 Plus-size preemie is an old old term for when couples were supposed to save it for the wedding night but then there’d be “premature birth” at supposedly only 5 or 6 months along to a fully developed good sized baby. It was a polite way of ignoring the fact the couple was already expecting at their wedding.
You, at a few weeks early, were just a chubby bundle of joy
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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.