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People still want to have children, above replacement rate even. Problem is that we gate children behind careers and getting married which is atrocious because
by kiba 2y ago
People still want to have children, above replacement rate even.
Problem is that we gate children behind careers and getting married which is atrocious because you will run out of years to start families if you wait too long.
Until the cavalry for extending lifespan and fertility arrive, we need to fix our economic and cultural system right now.
- toomuchtodo 2y agohttps://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-data https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-... > Stunning stat: 64% of young women say they just don't want children, compared to 50% of men.
- anon291 2y agoIt's simple memetic pressure. We've made out getting pregnant to be a bad thing. My wife and I married somewhat young, but hardly extraordinarily young -- age 22. When we conceived the first time, I remember going to the drug store with her to buy a pregnancy test and feeling ashamed at 23 to buy a pregnancy test -- ashamed that I got my wife pregnant! But it's simply due to the social conditioning that we're subjected to as teenagers. There's a weird American puritanism about sex, and it doesn't come solely from the religious right.
- Coffeewine 2y agoThis 'it's only a meme' bit ignores the part where being pregnant has the potential to breathtakingly suck. It doesn't seem so strange that people would want to avoid that if given the option.
- anon291 2y agoPregnancy isn't the reason why people are not having kids. It's the eighteen years after, IMO. That is what is memetically discouraged. Although, I won't pretend to know what the messaging is towards young girls