As someone who never wants kids, there are several legitimate reasons US people who would otherwise have kids aren’t doing so.
The economy already sucks but the future is looking quite terrible, republicans are constantly waging war on public schools, no paid paternity or maternity leave on top of increasingly shit wages, more and more folks are isolating themselves, leading to less people willing to date or becoming undateable, etc. Not to mention the complete lack of awareness pro-birth politicians have. Trying to force an increase in births, and thinking that the only reason folks aren’t having kids is because of the radical left attacking family values.
My MAGA / Q-ANON mom said she wanted to run for school board to prevent trans kids from using litter boxes. Mind you, her last kid (me) left that high school in 2006. I asked her what a school board director does, and she got mad at me because she didn’t know.
Like if you’re a parent just trying to make a good childhood for your kid, how do you even fight bored boomers like this? They have no dog in the fight, nothing to lose, and worst of all, nothing to do. That is just so dangerous.
I was raised with civic resources, and they wanna pull the damn ladder up behind them. Despicable.
Not to mention the impending doom of climate change
Way back when Inconvenient truth came out Al Gore come to my university to do his lecture on it. I was on the fence at the time about kids, but came out of there thinking there was no point to having kids who may not survive or have to live some post-apocalyptic underground bunker nonsense.
My sister works in environmental policy and I called to tell her about the lecture and told her i don’t know why anyone should even bother having kids. She was more optimistic than I expected and said there’s a lot of good work going on to fix things and that I shouldn’t give up hope. She went on to have two kids of her own and still works in the field. But about 15 years since we first talked about it, things are considerably more bleak and when Trump won she thought about getting out entirely.
I never had kids and have no regrets (for multiple reasons). But especially now I could not fathom having the level of optimism about the future I would need to feel secure in having kids.
It is simple people do not wish to bring children into this Nazi hell scrape.
Birthrate depends mostly on economics. Nazism, fascism, theism doesn’t lower it. Theism, actually, increases it in most cases
Only if you’re OK with it. I for sure wouldn’t want to live or procreate amongst fanatics.
Theism does miracles of forcing people “to be OK with it”.
Not in atheists.
I mean I recently decided I wasn’t going to bring a life form that I sure as fuck will love more than anything into this world, because subjecting them to the sanity-destroying levels of gleeful, wanton cruelty that our society apparently enjoys would be an act of supreme malice, and I could not live with that.
Maybe God, if there is one, is telling us something.
