Aren't birth rates down globally? According to Google only Sub-Saharan Africa has fertility above replacement. Great the future is click-click noises and retardation
I think there's also been a long-standing cultural attitude that really tries to push how much of a burden children can be.
I mean admittedly, it is hugely based on reality. Children take a lot of time, work, and money. There's can be a heavy mental and emotional toll, and it can go as far as to strain one or both parents' physical health too.
But it's been pushed way too harshly with a broad one-sided stroke. To the point of scaring away a LOT of potential parents. Which syncs together with just how many millennials have gone on to become adult-children of some variety or another.
Not that everyone's well suited to be a good parent, but actually taking such responsibility seriously (without running away from it completely) is a pretty important step towards actually becoming one.
People treat every single aspect of children as this huge financial burden to a point where its become accepted common knowledge, and its nothing more than a show of how retarded most people are.
Like, people kept reminding me that it was like 20k dollars to have a child in a hospital leading up to my first. And then the bill came at round 4k, expensive but not absurd, because as it turns out if you don't spend a week "recovering" in their bed and get out as soon as you're able you don't get charged as much.
The only legitimate concern is the babysitting versus two full time workers issue, which is hard to manage because those things are fucking expensive on any salary. But that's why you don't burn every bridge with your relatives over nonsense prior, like most people seem to do.
Aren't birth rates down globally? According to Google only Sub-Saharan Africa has fertility above replacement. Great the future is click-click noises and retardation
Birth rates are probably down because we have eroded the young and working class’s ability to support a family on a working wage.
By undercutting their salaries by importing millions of migrants
I think there's also been a long-standing cultural attitude that really tries to push how much of a burden children can be.
I mean admittedly, it is hugely based on reality. Children take a lot of time, work, and money. There's can be a heavy mental and emotional toll, and it can go as far as to strain one or both parents' physical health too.
But it's been pushed way too harshly with a broad one-sided stroke. To the point of scaring away a LOT of potential parents. Which syncs together with just how many millennials have gone on to become adult-children of some variety or another.
Not that everyone's well suited to be a good parent, but actually taking such responsibility seriously (without running away from it completely) is a pretty important step towards actually becoming one.
People treat every single aspect of children as this huge financial burden to a point where its become accepted common knowledge, and its nothing more than a show of how retarded most people are.
Like, people kept reminding me that it was like 20k dollars to have a child in a hospital leading up to my first. And then the bill came at round 4k, expensive but not absurd, because as it turns out if you don't spend a week "recovering" in their bed and get out as soon as you're able you don't get charged as much.
The only legitimate concern is the babysitting versus two full time workers issue, which is hard to manage because those things are fucking expensive on any salary. But that's why you don't burn every bridge with your relatives over nonsense prior, like most people seem to do.