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Look at it the other way, do we know why people do want kids? When I ask people here (and I think I'm considered rude for doing so), I get many different answer
by hotpotamus 3y ago
Look at it the other way, do we know why people do want kids? When I ask people here (and I think I'm considered rude for doing so), I get many different answers, none of which really satisfy me. It seems to be like religion; something I'm not capable of believing in.
My grandmothers both participated in the baby boom, yet one said she never really wanted children, it was just something that everyone did back then. The other grandmother never said much at all but always seemed very unhappy until she died a fairly early death from cancer that she opted not to fight. Actually I do remember her saying that she should have stopped after one child (my aunts and uncles had very problematic lives; a trait I seem to share).
It's a weird thing being descended from people who seemed indifferent at best to the whole concept of reproduction.
- 0dayz 3y agoThat's indirectly what I think too we ought to look for, personally I believe forming a family is and always will be a form of investment, maybe not an investment of wealth in this day and age, but a investment of a social group. In some sense I think we've lost a lot of that interest and instead tried a more individual approach to rationalizing forming a family. And also the old family structure we used to have, has not been able to adapt to the standard that the modern world and challenges demand of us.