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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boomers and GenXers have made society incredibly hostile to working parents, so I don't think we'll see a lot of younger generations having kids until that changes.[/quote]

Gen Xers?!?!? Um. No. [/quote]

+1. I’m Gen X (DOB 1974) My parents had a great standard of living with my dad working FT and my mom teaching 10-15 hours a week at a community college— all in, 1-2 classes, not 10-15 contact hours, plus office hours, grading, planning etc. and really, that was more 3 hours a day, 3 days a week she was away doing something else to keep herself active outside the home, not an economic necessity and some evening grading and planning.

DH and I worked as a Fed lawyer and software engineer to give our kids the same standard of living I was raised with and pay for college.  I couldn’t make private practice and kids work. I ended up feeling like a failure at both. So I went Fed. DH really did 1/2 the childcare and housework and it was expensive and hard. Worth it. But hard.

It shouldn’t be so expensive and so hard and I absolutely vote for policies that would give my kids an easier path, more in line with most of Europe on work flexibility, parental leave, work-life balance, good, subsidized childcare, universal pre-K, etc. It’s not my demo blocking this. Most of us are still raising kids at home and trying to pay for college.  We know it’s not sustainable. And that our kids will have it worse than we did. And we want better for them. My mother, OTOH, is a Boomer and does not see the problem.

My DD wants no part in having kids. But also wants a career that would be a lot of overseas travel and wouldn’t be a great fit with kids anyway. My DS is gay and does want marriage and kids- but says he doubts he will have them, because he doesn’t want to bring skids into a world where his family and kids would be under constant attack. Both have lived with Trump since they were tweens.  All they have seen of politics and the US is ugliness and threats and nastiness and calls for civil war and attacks on women and LGBTQ.  Add climate change and the possibility of a pregnancy going badly and being in the wrong place and not being treated, which freaks my DD out (and me out for her)?  Either things really change in this country or it’s hard to see either of my kids having kids. I’d love grandkids. But, I completely get where they are coming from. [/quote]

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