Please stop pressuring your children to give you grandchildren. It is they that have the fiscal and parental obligations of a child. Get a pet!

Im also not bringing children into a word where society only cares about them until they are born.

Fewer humans = healthier planet, hopefully. Maybe when we get into outerspace (stations and colonies) we can go crazy with the baby making again. Now if we can get the humans on the whole planet to reign it in for now... I grew up as an unwanted child. Believe me, it's best for everyone to have few to no children/only if you truly want to care for a child.

If people can't afford to put a roof over their heads, can't see a doctor without selling a kidney, or in the red just for going to college; who in their right mind would bring another life into the equation? It's like the perpetual recycling of debt that fuels a modern day slave trade. Is this why some folks would like to see abortion outlawed? Jesus would not approve of this.

It’s not all just bad shít. This generation has more options for traveling, different kinds of work for women, more ways to spend money on things that didn’t exist before. I don’t have debt or kids. I think like half of women don’t even like children and now we just don’t have to pretend.

People are practically terrified about the future. Why would they have children to have to endure all that?!

Also when women r educated on wat pregnancy & birth ACTUALLY entail, many of us choose the less painful, less deadly route of not havin kids. Pregnancy & birth r roads litered with pain, complications, permanent injuries, miscarriages, divorces, PTSD from traumatic births (this happens all the time) etc. You kno how painful it is 2 even just have a miscarriage!? You drop 2 the floor screaming in most cases & have 2 go 2 the hospital but that's nothin compared 2 labor! Pregnancy is 9 months of hell, there are 50,000 diff things that can kill u, many of which most people havent even heard of.women back in the 1950s knew none of this. They even got 2 b drugged up during birth so they wouldnt have 2 feel pain. Now they wont let u do anything! All they can do is give an epidural like 30 hrs in2 labor & many times they dont even wrk! Dont get me started on th gov tryin 2 control our bodies! Like wen 1 finds out at 22 wks th baby doesnt hav a spinal cord but u cant get an abortion

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The world is so over populated, why is it considered a bad thing when birth rates are down!? That should be a good thing!

Not to mention...kids are brats. Even the most well behaved adults were once pants pooping, back talking, germ producing- time thieves. Choosing to have kids is a decision about how much stress you can handle....A wise woman once said "dont have more children than you have arms to grab them", being the oldest kid in my family, I couldnt agree more.

Ta-da!

Could be worse - could have been a world war that’s took up about 6 years of everyone’s lives!!

Best thing you can do 4 the environment: don't have kids. My CO2 balance is quite awesome!

I can't imagine no having kids. My job pays well and have the nicest office in the building but i have never being happier than enjoying my children development and serving my husband a meal that he enjoys. My mom used to work in fashion until she became a stay home mom and she used to say the same, i didn't believe her back then but she was right.

Oh wow, sure it doesnt have to do with the fact that more people de-genderize themselves... or that so many people dating the same gender produces nothing.... i dont care what they choose because at least that genetic strain isnt gonna last long

I have American freinds. As a middleclass person you simply cannot afford to have a child, mcuh less several. You need to be either really rich or totally poor. But ti seems that this is what the US voters and government want, so good luck

But... that's how it's always been done! World War II was entwined with the Great Depression and followed by a baby boom.

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...then inflation to negate increased savings of upper middle class, when inflation never occurred for corporate bailouts or subsidies. they want immigrants for their new population? let em have it. this isn't America anymore anyway.

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It is the goal of the Left to reduce America's population by 100 million. Since row v wade, millions of unnecessary abortions have been conducted. (Meaning both mother and child would have survived birth perfectly healthy). Since civil rights, AIDS was created, Homosexuality is not just requested but demanded of many. (The US paid for more than 10,000 underage gender reassignments in 2021). Marriage between man and woman is under attack as well as the nuclear family. All this under the banner of "Equality. " Imagine what Covid was engineered fire... as we approach 900,000 deaths.