Because it's a lot of fun to travel and buy shoes? Mom who had her 1st in her 40s and still misses the travel and spontaneity. |
I wouldn't worry about that, gen Zer don't want kids. You're worried about your social security and Medicare cash cows, admit it. |
This. It’s like how Utah’s numbers are driven by religious Mormons but my secular friends in Salt Lake City all don’t have kids until later and have far fewer kids |
Maybe a woman’s worth isn’t determined by fertility. And aren’t teenagers really the ones in their prime fertility years? Just think of all the kids you could have to support Social Security and Medicare if you started at 14 instead of waiting until your 20s. Who cares about about school when you could be a mother—the most important part of being a woman. |
And yet, I have seen in my own Catholic family that the number of children has gone from 5-8 kids per family to 0-2 kids per family. That trend goes back to the early 60s and the availability of the pill, then the opening of the workplace so the life options for women expanded greatly and, finally, the decline in the number of men's jobs that can support a family at the same/better lifestyle than they grew up with. I maintain that those first two factors are wonderful. The third factor is unfortunate but true people like us. |
Even among Mormons, family size is declining. I see it in my own family. Mormon families are still bigger than other families but smaller than they used to be. Part of this is the Mormon church’s changed views on contraception. |
If you grew up in a big family like mine with 8 kids, you would understand why people do not want kids |
You must really hate your life. |
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I had mine (planned) at 26, but my spouse is older. And we are one & done. |
DP.. my mom had four, and I'm fairly certain she only wanted two. But, she comes from a culture and time when birth control was not widely used. Every one of my siblings has less than 2 -- 0, 1, 2 and 2. |
Is this one of my siblings posted? Even my mom says she would never have so many on today’s society. It just isn’t tenable. I really don’t blame anyone that doesn’t want kids. Reproduction is really pretty selfish — we just all want adorable little snuggly babies and then someone to hopefully grow up as mini-me’s. Otherwise we’d all just adopt older kids. |
Oooooo the anti-brunch guy is back!!! I missed you and your rants against women going to brunch!!! |
Yes, why do we even allow girls to attend HS at all? They should be knocked up by 16 at the very latest. That way they can pump out 20 spawn before the uterus prolapses. |
Is it really a dude? Gross. I assumed it was a cranky old religious hag. |