I can think a couple of reasons.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/26/1020810561/baby-bust-explaining-the-declining-u-s-birth-rate

  • ImSoOCD [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Making a few guesses before I open the article: children are expensive and even when people want them there are microplastics in the placenta

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Myself, and a surprising amount of of my female friends have "polycystic ovary syndrome." Which apparently makes having kids harder (don't worry about me, I've never wanted kids). I wonder if microplastics is the cause?

      • ImSoOCD [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        It’s probably a complicated collection of factors. But I know several people with this as well. Two of them want to have kids more than anything else in the world and it’s been very difficult