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Why more women are deciding not to have kids
https://www.cnn.com ^ | August 14, 2021 | By Harmeet Kaur, CNN

Posted on 08/27/2021 1:29:49 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

Dyanna Volek was never someone who dreamed of becoming a mother.

From an early age, she knew deep down that she didn't want children. Maybe it stemmed from seeing her mother sacrifice her dream of becoming a flight attendant and work three jobs to raise two kids alone. Or maybe it was that other endeavors interested her more. "I'm always looking forward to the next thing," said Volek, who works in local government in San Francisco. "Being a parent was never one of them." Still, the idea of not having children seemed taboo, so she didn't dwell on it much. It wasn't until a few years ago when she started getting serious with her partner that she really reckoned with her feelings. By the time she and her husband got married last November, they had reached a conclusion: They didn't want kids. Volek is now 37, and doesn't see herself changing her mind. Not having children gives her a sense of freedom that her friends who are parents don't have. Now that they're vaccinated, she and her husband have been able to eat at restaurants, attend concerts and travel without worrying about risking their child's safety. They can work toward retiring early, a goal that would be otherwise unattainable in a city as expensive as theirs. And in their day-to-day life, they have plenty of time for themselves. We're starting to see how the pandemic affected births in the US We're starting to see how the pandemic affected births in the US Volek is one of a growing number of women in the US who are opting not to have children -- part of a trend that has been underway for more than a decade "..." They don't want the responsibility

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1 posted on 08/27/2021 1:29:49 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

They are woke liberal and realize that if America is going to be saved . . . they have to stop reproducing. How about a total tubal ligation, ladies? or is that not the right word for youse?


2 posted on 08/27/2021 1:33:16 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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Now that they're vaccinated, she and her husband have been able to eat at restaurants, attend concerts and travel without worrying about risking their child's safety.

I am picking myself off the floor, I am laughing so hard.

All the pro-vaxxers around here claim "Nobody ever said the vaccine was perfect."

Well, this article just went there!
3 posted on 08/27/2021 1:33:35 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

cuz the Soi Boys the girls are hooking up with don’t have any Lead in their Pencils?


4 posted on 08/27/2021 1:34:34 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuitss)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

If they think of not having kids because there’s already too many people on the planet, then I say, why not go all the way and kill themself, and really take one for the team.


5 posted on 08/27/2021 1:35:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

They should do an article as to why men don’t want to get married and have children anymore.

Of course they wouldn’t tell the truth because men are the cause of ALL problems dontcha know.


6 posted on 08/27/2021 1:36:17 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: dfwgator

There you go!


7 posted on 08/27/2021 1:37:57 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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Just planting seeds!


8 posted on 08/27/2021 1:38:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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9 posted on 08/27/2021 1:39:33 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Import 3rd world citizens into a 1st world society
Change a 1st World society into a 3rd world society

Just ask Sweden how well that worked out for them; they are now the rape center of the civilized world. If only someone with an IQ above room temperature could have foreseen this.

People spoke out about this, and they were severely punished for protesting while their children were raped.


10 posted on 08/27/2021 1:41:58 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: RomanSoldier19

More and more of the younger generation their lives revolve around instant gratification and them, them, them. Plus lazy, no work ethic.

Children are hard work, require sacrifice, responsibility, virtues that seem to be going the way of the dodo bird as each generation comes along.


11 posted on 08/27/2021 1:43:29 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: RomanSoldier19

Kipling covered this in “The Gods if the Copybook Headings”:

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)

Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”


12 posted on 08/27/2021 1:43:44 PM PDT by skepsel
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To: RomanSoldier19

Less liberal women having less liberal babies!

So, what is the down side for the rest of us?


13 posted on 08/27/2021 1:45:54 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, China, Cuba, Chicago/NYC! I'd move there )
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I am sure that Afghani and Congoese and Moroccan and Haitian and Guatamalan immigrants will be delighted to pay taxes for the care of childless old western women, and that the touch of their hands will always be gentle.

This is a sick and suicidal society. Maybe it’s a flaw, evolutionary or spiritual, that many people have a sex drive stronger than a child drive. That used to be enough before it crashed into contraceptive technology.

I used to feel guilty about having four children and over-population. Then I realized we wouldn’t even make a drop of difference next to all my people who weren’t having children, and that my people were the only ones who cared about over-population or the ecologies of the earth at all.


14 posted on 08/27/2021 1:46:00 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Part of the reason for not reproducing is that we’ve pushed the educational requirements so high that somebody has to be in their early thirties before they finish their education. Then you often spend a couple of years establishing yourself in your occupation.

Almost no time left at all to have a child.


15 posted on 08/27/2021 1:46:19 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: BiglyCommentary

Some people have no business being parents and I’m grateful for the ones who know it. It’s sad but the alternatives are far, far worse.


16 posted on 08/27/2021 1:46:54 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: RomanSoldier19

To answer the question here - VERY SIMPLE. Kids are a TOTAL DRAG on today’s career-driven couples. In the past, the choice was FAR EASIER - sit home and do nothing all day, or have kids. Today, the choice is to make a lot of money, or have kids - no financial upside with kids.

So many couples simply go the no-kids route, or if that makes them look bad in their social circles, well then, one Trophy Child when the woman turns 38.

Meanwhile, women in burkas and women like them are living the traditional US/Western lifestyle of having kids, or sitting at home watching soap operas all day, making the decision much easier.

So the solution, if people DARE to ask: Make having kids financially rewarding, or at least not financially punishing. PAY PARENTS, maybe $10,000 per year, tax free, for kid #1, $20k for 2 kids, $40k for 3 kids, $60k for 4 kids, and a maximum of $80k for 5 kids or more. And do it in a way that only applies to families who will support this country, to preclude 3rd World Baby Factories.

Don’t like the idea, fine - live with the consequences of Westerners being depopulated, and explain to your kids why this is good for them and their kids.


17 posted on 08/27/2021 1:47:02 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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Children are hard work, require sacrifice, responsibility, virtues that seem to be going the way of the dodo bird as each generation comes along.”

What happened to the DoDo birds in the big picture?


18 posted on 08/27/2021 1:48:06 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, China, Cuba, Chicago/NYC! I'd move there )
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Now that they're vaccinated, she and her husband have been able to eat at restaurants, attend concerts and travel without worrying about risking their child's safety. They can work toward retiring early, a goal that would be otherwise unattainable in a city as expensive as theirs.

My wife and I got the biggest kick out of this.

We are both UNVACCINATED and we've been out to eat several times a week through this whole silly pandemic. We can retire NOW if we want to and we are still in our 50s. Our children are grown up and on their own. We live in the NYC area.

So we say to this smug woman "happy trails."

19 posted on 08/27/2021 1:50:37 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: RomanSoldier19

People who don’t want to have children definitely should not. But AT SOME POINT IN THEIR SELF-CENTERED, SHALLOW LIVES they may regret that decision. The best part of parenthood is having adult children and grandchildren, and by the time they understand that, it will be way too late.


20 posted on 08/27/2021 1:50:59 PM PDT by LizzieD
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