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 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
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.
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 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
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.