Seriously almost all of my friends have kids now and no one has time to hang out anymore. This is bullshit and must stop!

  • itappearsthat
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    8 months ago

    in contrast basically none of my friends are having kids, to the point where my impression of population growth is that the human race decided to stop reproducing in 2020

    • Dꫀꪑꪮꪀᥴ᥅ꪖᥴꪗ@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      None of my friends have kids, but nearly all of my coworkers do and even speaking of getting more. It's weird. Thankfully I'm leaving soon. I want coworkers who will have time to befriend my gay ass.

    • Ithorian [comrade/them, null/void]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      Could be age thing? I'm in my late thirties and most of my friends have had their kids in the last five years.

      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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        8 months ago

        to some extent. gen mz is not having children due to the economic climate in several countries. id argue one of the reasons you might see more late 30s is because some women worry about becoming less fertile, as after 30, you progressively have a harder time to give birth, and gets much worse as time passes on, so those who want children are pushed to do so sooner rather than later.

      • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
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        8 months ago

        That's about a good time to adopt a rando 5yo and find out which of your friends are racist or natalist.

      • FoolishFool [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        I think some Elder Millenials were lucky enough to get enough scraps to still pull off the house/kids thing, but anyone younger prob. has way worse odds.