For some reason I'm not surprised about Facebook being explicitly boomer-centric
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
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Boomers should have thought of the shareholders.
That is, the kids they fucked over with their bullshit ideas and absolute misunderstanding of the world they created.
I'd love to be able to speak with my parents again, but (and I never thought I would ever say this, if you had asked me 10 years ago) I need to see some heads popping out of asses.
well, there are just more boomers, and less gen x/millenial people. It should follow that there will be less babies lmao.
Granted cost of child raising is still likely to be a more influential factor, it's not the only factor, and we were going to see this anyway so.
Boomers should have though of the future of their children. Now they reap what they sowed.
Not the best thesis, but people should have kids and more of them. That’s not open for debate.
LOL 😂
If you want more kids make a world where raising kids is easier, safer, and more affordable. Just stating "That's not open for debate" is such an idiotic non-answer to the problem of people not wanting to have kids. There are reason people feel this way. Fix those reasons and people might feel differently. Not me, but other people would.
| not me
ok so why raise issues about easier, safer, more afforable if they're not your reasons?
Because I have loved ones that are living in this world and it matters to them, therefore it matters to me.
Have those people committed to not have kids until those issues are resolved? And have they set thresholds of easier, safer, more affordable to trigger their child rearing?
Most people don't measure out futuristic measurements for society to get to before they feel comfortable having kids. Plus they will be at a different place and time, so things may change for them to be more comfortable. Reproducing isn't the top priority for them, surviving is. It's like Maslow's hierarchy of needs. After the basic needs are met, they will have more energy to focus on kids.
I'm in my 40s and still don't want kids, so I doubt that will change. The people I know that are young (teens and early 20s) might change their mind, but they aren't lining up to have kids now. Some seem open to changing their minds later, but most of them say probably not.
I feel ya, I've always been a mix of "not ready" and "not wanting". Then my perspective on what fatherhood even is shifted and I was able to unshackle myself from the Christian thing.
That said, if you don't want kids for yourself then what impact are you having on those 20 somethings when you soapbox about how difficult and dangerous the world is?
This is kind of whatever... basically white boomer doomism as a result of later childbirth. White people, especially privileged white people, are definitely having less kids, but that's not true for everyone. My theory is that it's because if you grew up with white privilege, you expect to be able to give your child that same level of privilege. If you can't, it seems "impossible." If you grew up poor, you know that you just make it work (if you want to). Like, I grew up poor and am not white. The idea that I "need" to own a house to consider having children is hilarious to me. My parents still rent.
People are having kids. Most people who are younger than 30 are astounded to realize just how many women do have children -- according to Pew, 85% of Gen X women have children. Trends for millennial women are slightly lower but not much. The idea that this is some emergency is just dumb alarmism.
When they polled people aged 18-30 in the 90s and 2010s, and 2020s, the amount of people who said they would never have children is lower than now, but not by much. Some people change their mind and a significant majority of people do have children, especially if you're not white or Asian. There is a very real racial difference though, so I'm not just bringing that up for no reason.
Regardless, it's people's choice. Whenever I see articles like this, it always seems kinda "Great Replacement Theory" adjacent. In my head I always put (white) in the title. I.e., a smaller percentage of (white) baby boomers have grandchildren, and (white) boomers are (scared they're going to be replaced).