Mee@reddthat.com to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoNumber of Americans who never want kids doubled in 20 yearswww.futurity.orgexternal-linkmessage-square216linkfedilinkarrow-up1858arrow-down17
arrow-up1851arrow-down1external-linkNumber of Americans who never want kids doubled in 20 yearswww.futurity.orgMee@reddthat.com to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square216linkfedilink
minus-squareexasperation@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down1·1 year agoPeople without financial security: “kids are too expensive and I would be exhausted trying to provide for them” People with financial security: “I’m having a good time, adding a kid to this mix would really require a step back in my lifestyle.”
minus-squarena_th_an@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33arrow-down1·1 year agoThere’s also the moral question of “do I want to add a living person to the world I wish I didn’t exist in?”
minus-squarewinkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoThat’s why I think if I’m gonna have a kid some day it will be via adoption.
minus-squareCalipherJones@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoEven if money weren’t an issue for me, I’d be worried my pessimistic outlook on life would crush my potential child’s spirit.
minus-square𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·1 year agoIf you are person number 2 and thus having good time you probably would want to share the good time
minus-squareHipHoboHarold@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoIf I am seen as person number 2 and not just a human being that exists and has autonomy and feelings Then I am probably not having a good time
minus-squareHipHoboHarold@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoSo is calling someone person number 2.
minus-squarejoel_feila@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agoAnd yet the people most concerned about birth rates fight the hardest against anything that would make people have more kids
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minus-squaresupersquirrel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoSee I would compare it to the permanent dread of bringing children into a world that you knew would not be a good life for them given the trajectory we are locked into now.
minus-square𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·edit-21 year agoI don’t really understand that argument but I guess ok, like it’s not gonna be some kind of apocalypse. People gonna be fine and your kids too
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People without financial security: “kids are too expensive and I would be exhausted trying to provide for them”
People with financial security: “I’m having a good time, adding a kid to this mix would really require a step back in my lifestyle.”
There’s also the moral question of “do I want to add a living person to the world I wish I didn’t exist in?”
That’s why I think if I’m gonna have a kid some day it will be via adoption.
Even if money weren’t an issue for me, I’d be worried my pessimistic outlook on life would crush my potential child’s spirit.
If you are person number 2 and thus having good time you probably would want to share the good time
If I am seen as person number 2 and not just a human being that exists and has autonomy and feelings
Then I am probably not having a good time
Bizarre comment
So is calling someone person number 2.
And yet the people most concerned about birth rates fight the hardest against anything that would make people have more kids
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See I would compare it to the permanent dread of bringing children into a world that you knew would not be a good life for them given the trajectory we are locked into now.
I don’t really understand that argument but I guess ok, like it’s not gonna be some kind of apocalypse. People gonna be fine and your kids too
No, no they won’t
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Define they won’t
There’s a void? Man. Must suck.