Does Gen Z really want children or not?
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Anonymous
| My gen z young adult DDs are also adamant about not having kids. I get it though. They have watched me attempt and often fail at having both a big career and a family. I carried so much guilt about both keeping my career as well as not being able to keep up with childless or male counterparts. They don’t want to choose and they certainly have seen it’s next to impossible to have both and not be thoroughly exhausted or have a very well off family or spouse to outsource everything. |
Anonymous
Yup and our government policies enable it! |
Anonymous
Yes! There is hope that the human race will continue!! |
Anonymous
Mine saw the same in me. She wants to marry someone rich so she doesn’t have to work as hard. |
Anonymous
This is definitely a thing - my daughter is only 23 but has had more than one guy (investment banker/med student) tell her on dates that "his wife will not have to work" as a sort of flex - it's strange, and she thinks its crazy - but thought I'd share that this dynamic is out there |
Anonymous
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Oldest Gen Z is 26.
Even I didn't want kids then and I didn't meet my DH until later. |
Anonymous
Maybe some Christian fundies will be interested in him. |
Anonymous
"Enable" is the wrong word. The issue is that Republican policies make it hard for the poor to avoid unwanted pregnancies. |
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| From what I know many are worried about how expensive everything is now, wanting to be financially stable before, and some are more focused on owning a house before thinking about kids. Guess it just depends on the Gen Z. |
Anonymous
It's true that society-- particularly due to housing costs-- has made it impractical to have SAHPs. But that's not what is driving the decisions to not have kids. Young people want financial independence and to feel self-worth. I don't know anyone under 40 that wanted to quit working. But child care costs have simply gotten too expensive. And in the DMV, we saw the bourgeoisie willing to close schools for 18 months without regard for the impact on kids or parents. This is an incredibly hostile area for families unless you're uber-rich. |
Anonymous
Does he have ANY idea how much work that will be? Has he spent significant time around children, like babysitting or mentoring? Or does he just airily declare this, assuming that his poor brood mare of a wife will take care all the pesky details? |
Anonymous
How is this worse than farmer and corporate welfare and handouts? And bailouts? Why do you single out one and not the other? |
Anonymous
Some'll have kids and be fine, some won't have kids and some will find it overwhelming to have kids. Every generation did that, so can Gen-Z though with society, economy and parents telling them to keep postponing it for trivial reasons, it would happen much later and with much fertility struggles. |
Anonymous
| My GenZ kids and many of ther friends whom I know would marry people for their compatibility, kindness, ethics and ambitions to do good for the world and do well for themselves. Looks, money or fame aren't impressive for most of them. |
Anonymous
\\\ I'm 52. I said the same thing--that I don't want kids-- at 18 and also 25 and quite possibly at 30 (hard to remember). Now I have three. Who knows? |