Nuh uh it’s because woke
“Raising a child costs money” is an complete unsupportable situation for any society and represents completely indefensible failure.
I hate being reminded that it costs money to go to the hospital and get your baby delivered in the US. Yeah it’s super expensive having a kid but i didn’t have to pay $10k+ to have it removed from my partner
All “healthcare” executives should experience their skin being flayed from their bodies
“skin to skin” hospital bill
Wtf, what is the hospital doing here?
It’s a fee for allowing the mother to hold her baby because that’s how fucked up our society is
$40 a minute fee for breathing
The US is really keen on disproving any claims of labour aristocracy huh
I was under the impression many people just don’t pay hospital bills?
That’s what I’d probably do
Just dont pay the bill
-1000 credit score checkmate tankie
I think you can renegotiate the bill and do really low monthly payments if you end up in that situation
Tho now that you mention it I don’t think Ive ever noticed my credit score being affected much by the medical bills I never payed
Nice I’m glad it’s working out for you
We have a complex and frankly fragile system of family members who care for one another’s kids and maintain specific work schedules so that one grownup is always available in my family, that we built from scratch (not really from a cultural background where this is the norm, it’s out of necessity) and it’s frankly the only way my family has been able to support any children.
I’m genuinely not sure how a person pays for rent/mortgage, utilities, gas and food while also paying the kinds of prices that childcare costs in even low COL areas of the US.
The only happy parents I know have family who regularly watch their kids, including overnight stays. The kids love it because they spend time with more family, and my friends love it because it means they still have time to work and do things for themselves outside of childcare. I frankly don’t know how the average atomized American family copes with raising children.
I frankly don’t know how the average atomized American family copes with raising children.
Apparently they are coping very poorly, as per recent surveys:
“After breaking out responses from people with children under age 18, the APA reported that 48 percent of those parents and caregivers describe themselves as completely overwhelmed.”
“The parent-specific breakdown also found that 41 percent said most days they “were so stressed they couldn’t function” — double the number reported by non-parents — while 42 per cent said they were so stressed they felt numb.”
It’s called the nuclear family because of how atomized we are :kelly:
Isn’t that literally true?
yeah I think they’re using the same etymology.
Breeder fetishist billionaires will continue worsening conditions until breeding increases
I know a lot of people who want to have kids (or more than one kid) who won’t because it would financially ruin them, and I live in a cheap ass rust belt city.
I am also unsure if the world is ending. The last generation of humans may already be alive. They may already be adults with college degrees. Mad Max is fine to watch on screen, but would be a horrifying reality to live in.
I do not want to subject people to the upcoming WW3.
Humanity is going to survive, perhaps in small isolated pockets that never reach the potential capitalism squandered.
That being said, if I were to have a kid I’d be taking on the burden of finding a way to set them up for a good life. I don’t see a good life in near to mid term future for anyone not extremely lucky in birth circumstance.
Humanity is going to survive, perhaps in small isolated pockets that never reach the potential capitalism squandered.
The neoliberal propaganda known as “Kurzgesagt” said that if 99% of humanity is wiped out, that’s still a “win” for Team Humanity™. The propaganda declined to state what the planetary conditions would look like for that 1% but assumed everything would be fine after that.
Seriously , if Kurzgesagt actually thinks that I’m absolutely disgusted, that sounds like Hitler particles shit right there.
EDIT: disregard the stuff I said about Stalin’s quote. I double checked it and apparently that quote wasn’t even something he actually said.
if Kurzgesagt actually thinks that I’m absolutely disgusted, that sounds like Hitler particles shit right there.
The words Kurzgesagt said were something about a “win for team humanity” with even a 1% human survival total during some industry-driven environmental collapse. There was some weapons-grade hopium about how wonderful it’d be for “team humanity” to live on with whatever killed the other 99% on so poisoned a planet.
teahc your children to find water by smell like an antelope
The world is closer to ended than ending. More than half of complex macroscopic life is already dead or replaced by monoculture/livestock. Today’s fossil record would lbe considered post extinction event to future alien paleontologists.
The last generation of humans may already be alive
Would you mind elaborating?
The end of human civilization may be occurring within our lifetime. So children born today may be fighting in wars over water or killed in nuclear attacks twenty years from now. They may not be able to survive these events. Meaning, they won’t have children of their own.
If the damage is severe enough, the human population might bottleneck to where we won’t have enough genetic diversity to repopulate the earth. Sort of like how cheetahs are going extinct because they’re all born with the same genetic disorder and there aren’t any cheetahs without it.
dion’t buy any green bananas
Some of you are alright don’t come to earth tomorrow
This is my reasoning too.
I feel like 96% of things that 1 in 4 millennials and Gen Z-ers won’t do is due to finances.
We already killed the diamond industry, apparently
We already killed the diamond industry, apparently
They’re still pumping them out in Guatemala. I’m pretty sure we’re one of the countries keeping up North America’s birthrates.
Doing my part for white replacement by not reproducing
Unlike me who won’t have kids due to no game
For some of us, it’s both
Yep.
Personally, I got slapped with the ugly + picky employers means I’m underemployed + live in a podunk suburb so can’t meet people wombo combo.
Capitalism continuing to destroy its own foundation lol
im sure the right wing youtubers will be crying and pissing themselves about the “infertility crisis” even louder now
They’ve been virtue signalling about concern for population growth for years now
1 in 4 gen z-ers say they won’t have kids due to being gay and trans :spectre-of-gender:
You jest, but I see this as the new angle for homophobia.
: “Those dang lgbt folk, we ordered them to have kids…but they’re in relationships where they CANNOT produce kids! No, you can’t just adopt and raise a child in foster care…you’re shirking your responsibility to give us more cattle!”
On the flip side I have kids and can barely afford to exist.
