4d ago

Number of Americans who never want kids doubled in 20 years

www.futurity.org

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Never want kids = realizing I'll never be able to afford them
- Well yeah but there's more too. The climate is a factor in people's choices as well.
  
  It's it that they don't want kids as in no matter what they are never having kids... or they only don't want them because of economy...etc. I took it as they do not want kids under any circumstances.
  
  Well in the usa at least, the birth rate started to drop after the 2009 meltdown. That also when young people that are most likely to start a family couldn't afford it. Survey data from the 60s until today shows very little in how many know da people want.
  So ueah its like 90% money
  
  I took it as a generalized statement, which upon re reading i may have misinterpreted
- Also, they're sticky, and no one wants to deal with that.
- ~~realizing I'll never be able to afford them~~
  realizing I'll never be able to afford them without sacrificing the slightest inch of my current lifestyle
  FTFY
  I don't fault you. You do you. Just stop blaming the economy.
  People have been willingly having children through times tougher than anything you have or ever will experience.
  You just don't want kids. And that's fine.
  Just stop scapegoating the economy.
  
  It costs 19,000 on average without insurance just to birth a child. I currently have to have 3 roommates just to make rent. How about you go fuck yourself?
  
  Pretty sure a human can birth a child for free.
  Oh, you mean in a fancy hospital with modern conveniences developed by scientists to make the process as comfortable and hassle-free as possible?
  Again, humans have been procreating, WILLINGLY, in conditions worse than anything you have or will ever experience because they WANT a child. They WANT to procreate.
  Not wanting that is fine. Just stop blaming others.
  
  Yeah you're not a serious person. Goodbye.
  
  Not serious?
  I'm sorry that you have been made to believe that an expensive 3 day hospital visit is the one and only way that a human can give birth, but the fact is: that's just the most comfortable and convenient way of giving birth. That's why it's so expensive.
  I would label the person who believes there is no way that a human can give birth to another human without recent medical advancements as "not serious".
  How has this species survived for so long?

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