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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saying that millennial men pitched this whole concept is a little disingenuous. They're responding to the culture the same that women do. Just because we stopped teaching girls how to manage households doesn't mean we started teaching men how to do it. It just means that now both men and women don't know how to do it and we're all reinventing the wheel in our nuclear bubbles. Hence why household management and and childrearing is experienced as burdensome even though childhood mortality has been statistically eradicated. Unless we go back to valuing the family unit and valorizing care of children as a societal good, birth rates will continue to plummet.[/quote]

You've got to be kidding. Childrearing is experienced as burdensome because parenting has become vastly more intensive. My childhood, including that I was babysitting multiple toddlers/babies in middle school, would be considered abusive now for both me and the kids I was sitting for. Adding to that, the returns to having an all-consuming job have gone up, too. The issue is not that I don't know how to "manage a household", it's that it's objectively difficult to both provide the kind of parenting that's now expected and to work, particularly if you want to want to have a career, aren't independently wealthy, and want to get started on having kids young enough that you're unlikely to experience age -related fertility challenges. [/quote]

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