Reply to Millennial women are saying no thanks to parenthood

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Millennial women are saying no thanks to parenthood"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I guess my Gen X friends were ahead of the curve.  Out of 8 of us from a college room group, four of us have kids (with 3, 3, 2 and 2) and 4 have no kids at al.  Two of them are in long term relationships and one married later in life (mid 40s) and the fourth never really had a long term relationship that I know of.

Of my millennial nieces and nephews, 6 ouf  of 11 have kids.  I think 1-3 more might have kids.  But at least one just isn’t that into the whole app dating scene and is happy being an auntie, another is really negative on the future and would prefer to just be an auntie,  I think the financials are only an issue for maybe one and career is not the issue for any of them.  I think they just don’t feel like it’s a “must do” to be fulfilled people — which is great.

If you do historical research, it was actually common in the 19th and early 20th century for people to have no kids—often people didn’t marry if they couldn’t support a family, and other people had fertility issues.  Many families had an aunt or uncle with no kids of their own who often moved in with a niece/nephew.  I think the collapse of those larger families contributed to the feeling that you had to have kids of your own or you’ll die alone.  At this point, everyone probably thinks they’ll die alone anyway so kids aren’t seen as that important.  
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics