I'm 34, financially stable and living with my girlfriend, and I have zero plans to have children. We have a dog and two cats and it's going to stay that way, most that will happen is we add another dog in a year or two.
Boomers created a world where it costs $500k to raise a child to adulthood and are also gutting social security and pushing the retirement age up. If I have to choose between maybe retiring someday or having a child, retirement is going to win 100% of the time. Not to mention it's morally questionable IMO to bring a child into a world with ever worsening income inequality and a looming climate disaster.
the idea that its “wrong” to bring a child into the world because.... is unnecessarily binary towards a complex decision.
If you prefer not to have children or don’t think you could provide stability for your child then that’s your call, but if you did have a child and the wrath of Climate change burned your whole city to the ground. It’s not your fault for having a child bc you knew about Climate change. In the same way it wouldn’t be your responsibility if a tsunami destroyed your city and you lived near a fault line.
For as much pressure as we put on people to have kids. Wanting a life without children needs more encouragement. Let’s not frame the decision in such good vs bad terms.
I'm 34, financially stable and living with my girlfriend, and I have zero plans to have children. We have a dog and two cats and it's going to stay that way, most that will happen is we add another dog in a year or two.
Boomers created a world where it costs $500k to raise a child to adulthood and are also gutting social security and pushing the retirement age up. If I have to choose between maybe retiring someday or having a child, retirement is going to win 100% of the time. Not to mention it's morally questionable IMO to bring a child into a world with ever worsening income inequality and a looming climate disaster.
the idea that its “wrong” to bring a child into the world because.... is unnecessarily binary towards a complex decision.
If you prefer not to have children or don’t think you could provide stability for your child then that’s your call, but if you did have a child and the wrath of Climate change burned your whole city to the ground. It’s not your fault for having a child bc you knew about Climate change. In the same way it wouldn’t be your responsibility if a tsunami destroyed your city and you lived near a fault line.
For as much pressure as we put on people to have kids. Wanting a life without children needs more encouragement. Let’s not frame the decision in such good vs bad terms.