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There is no shortage of humans who want to have children. Not all 7 billion of us can have a family.
by jniedrauer 7y ago
There is no shortage of humans who want to have children. Not all 7 billion of us can have a family.
- malvosenior 7y agoIndeed not everyone will reproduce but the future will be exclusively filled by people who’s parents did.
- jjdjr0odo7 7y agoYa can keep cutting this up; it’ll be exclusively filled by kids that survive. Infant mortality rates and suicide among adults are up. Parents have to consider raising successful adults is not guaranteed. Maybe the measure for loneliness is just wrong? Lonely relative to traditional values family model? Which had problems with depression, infidelity, parental anxiety 24/7... in other words, rife with emotional dysfunctions of its own. Are we concerned with decline in family because it’s the best model for organizing communal life or because we’re used to it? It feels different and weird, which can feel sad, but allows other models for socializing to explore.