The people who made a world that despises children are blaming their children for choosing not to bring children into a world that despises children.
On one hand, there might be traces of something like that in the article itself. On the other hand, with that tweet as the ingress, I'm deliberately not clicking it to find out. Play clickbait games, win anti-click prizes.
Both of my millennial kiddos have informed me that I probably won’t be a grandma and tbh I don’t blame them one bit. By the time I was their age I had an entry-level job, my own place, a car, and money left over for a vacay. Good luck with that these days, let alone being able to afford a human.
Ignoring a thousand other factors, IT'S STUPIDLY EXPENSIVE TO HAVE KIDS. Hell, our hospital bill for one kid via cesarian ran tens of thousands of dollars.
You can’t support a family on one income, child care is crazy expensive, student loan payments are suffocating, rent prices are skyrocketing… Seriously. They aren’t having kids because they can’t afford to have them. They are barely supporting themselves.
This is a predictable outcome of removing the dream of home ownership via corporate greed. I’d imagine many would be more likely to build families if they were able to afford a modest 3-bedroom house like what was once possible instead of needing a dual income for a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment.
I’ve been thinking for a while that a lot of people angry that they don’t have grandkids could be a new, horribly destructive front in our politics.
Someone should remind the that they’ve been complaining about overpopulation and resource scarcity for decades. We’re just trying to help.
Is anyone else getting brain squeezed every time they read the first sentence after the headline? "So why aren't there more only children?" Did an AI write this?
"What if we allow children to work in coal mines again?"