Far more families are choosing to have fewer — or no — children. Many countries, including the U.S., now face a rapidly aging population that could begin to shrink.
This article fails to address one of the main causes I see people list for not having kids. It’s, “Is it okay for me to bring a kid into a world this fucked up?”
A lot of young people are deeply certain that they’re going to have to live through an ecological collapse and climate disasters. Why would they want to have a child, and be constantly faced with the fact that their kid is going to have a worse life than them. That their grandkids may not know what seasons were like?
It’s also so ridiculously expensive now. It’s not worth it.
I’m 60, I asked myself this at 20 and answered no and had a vasectomy. Not just for any kids but for the biosphere itself, we in the developed world in particular, walk heavily upon this earth.
The destruction is accelerating I guess and is more obvious now but it’s been like this my entire procreating life, yiu just had to actually observe.
I thought they mentioned the expense and climate change. They obviously didn’t go into depth. I thought it was interesting that its important enough that NPR is bringing it up
This article fails to address one of the main causes I see people list for not having kids. It’s, “Is it okay for me to bring a kid into a world this fucked up?”
A lot of young people are deeply certain that they’re going to have to live through an ecological collapse and climate disasters. Why would they want to have a child, and be constantly faced with the fact that their kid is going to have a worse life than them. That their grandkids may not know what seasons were like?
It’s also so ridiculously expensive now. It’s not worth it.
I’m 60, I asked myself this at 20 and answered no and had a vasectomy. Not just for any kids but for the biosphere itself, we in the developed world in particular, walk heavily upon this earth.
The destruction is accelerating I guess and is more obvious now but it’s been like this my entire procreating life, yiu just had to actually observe.
I thought they mentioned the expense and climate change. They obviously didn’t go into depth. I thought it was interesting that its important enough that NPR is bringing it up