Posted on 07/05/2018 2:53:18 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Jessica Boer, 26, kissing her cat Kip at her home in Portage, Mich. Like an increasing number of people in her generation, she does not plan to have children. “Now we know we have a choice,” she said.
Wanting more leisure time and personal freedom; not having a partner yet; not being able to afford child-care — these were the top reasons young adults gave for not being sure they wanted children, reports a new survey conducted by Morning Consult for the NYT.
About a quarter said they expected to have fewer than they wanted. The largest shares said they delayed or stopped having children because of concerns about having enough time or money.
It is partly about greater gender equality. Women have more agency over their lives; motherhood has become more of a choice.
But it’s also a story of economic insecurity. Young people have record student debt, many graduated in a recession and can’t afford homes — all as parenthood has become more expensive.
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David Carlson, 29, graduated from college in 2010, when the job market was still rough. He and his wife had $100,000 in undergraduate debt between them. They both work full time — he in corporate finance and she in counseling — but they don’t yet feel they can take time away from their careers.
He said they’d consider adoption if they decided to have children but had waited too long. Another option for having children later in life is egg freezing. Only 1 percent of female survey respondents said they had frozen their eggs — but almost half said they would if not for the cost.
Whether the young generation will catch up later is not certain, but will depend on their capacity to combine work and family.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Youngers today do not view life as a fun ride or an interesting endeavor, rather ... it is hard and boring and full of problems that cost time, money and effort.
Marriage ?
Waddaya' KIDDIN' me ?
Even country kids don't "get" the simplicity of a place to live, something to do that pays enough money and someone to share it with.
It is not complicated.
The socialist indoctrination of public schools have their brain FILLED with crap that creeps in at all times and doesn't let go.
Kind'a like we oldsters hear a 50's or 60's song and we're off dreamin' for half a day.
THEY have Miss McGilicuddy's scratchy voice tellin' them they'd better study so they can go to college and get a job.
It's all in the mind .... the memories .... the self motivation instilled by positive dreams.
I can do all things through Christ which (who) strengtheneth me
GIRLS can go blind, too ?
There’s a cause & effect vicious circle in play.
In the big cities, everyone needs to work; because everyone else is. The “poverty line” today is about where the median family income was 50 years ago. However, in big cities, you’re bidding against everyone else for location — in particular, a location reasonably near to work. Two-income couples are, in effect, spending that entire second income to buy proximity to work.
Why do they have her sitting on an American flag?
Anyway, it is birth control
High taxes. High real estate. Cost of transportation.
But it is birth control
These people will have no one to take care of them when theyre old. Not even a spouse
It is terrible planning.
The problem is not of ability. It’s of unrealistic expectations. Feminism created that for us.
And here's another piece of the puzzle: according to Dr. Brian Ray, HSLDA-related researcher, referencing U.S. Labor Dept statistics, homeschooling families are to be found at every income level. Keep in mind that homeschooling couples generally have one working full-time, one homeschooling full-time. They have one income, maybe one-and-a-half if the teaching spouse also, say, works at home part time.
But somehow, some households manage living on one income at every income level.
The homeschooling decision seems to be determined, not by what their income is, but by what their values are.
I'm thinking the same goes for the decision to have kids in the first place.
Your dad grew up in a different time where that phrase wouldn’t create very real life disasters if you followed it.
not and be people
People like her will still expect MY kids to pick up the tab for her Social Security old age welfare payments even though she didn't produce any offspring herself to fund her retirement benefits.
More comfortable than a bony gal!
I agree, mostly financial. They owe huge sums of debt to big academia and the economy has only ticked up since Trump won. There are alot of millenials who have not jump started their careers.
That is definitely a problem. Not to mention the millions of out-of-wedlock babies in the welfare system.
I say if people want kids, good, have them but raise them well.
If people don’t want kids, don’t have them, spare the kids and the rest of us from doing a half-assed job.
Either way, either choice, is a selfish one, one isnt better than another from a moral point of view. When people say ‘dont you want kids to take care of you when you are older’ as justification for having kids, they cant see the selfishness of that reason.
One of my father’s neighbors out in Missouri had ten children, as I do. They were pretty well off - big extended family, farming and trucking, some local elected officials. Their house was around the size mine is, but it had one tiny bathroom and a tiny kitchen. Only the ground floor had electricity and running water.
The "GREAT DEPRESSION" slowed down the number of children most young people had prior to WW II; though not for every one.
Until "the Pill", contraceptives were NOT "fail proof"; however, that did help to not having kids that people couldn't afford to have.
And nobody needs to have a massive amount of kids to work the farm, or bring in extra money ( child labor laws sort of put the kibosh on that too )these days.
Factual history...learn some.
OTOH...the fact is that more and more Millennials refuse to grow up and are selfish.
"...These people will have nobody to take care of them when they’re old..."
Sounds like a justification of murder. If you you don’t want kids, don’t have sexual intercourse.
(Sperm + vagina = child) Duh!
No, they aren’t and neither is having a whole battalion of kids.
My aunt and uncle had 10 kids. originally had a 1 1/2 three bedroom Started packing the boys in the daylight basement and put a shower down there, and squeezed another one in the half bath. The place was always a freaking mess, bedause they had a farm and mom worked part time, just busy lives. after the kids were out they renovated. turned it into a nice home.
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