Young folks have been priced out of housing & healthcare, you can be fired from your job on a whim, food is astronomically expensive, the political climate is tense, your basic human rights could be rescinded at any time, the future of the planet is being murdered by shitty capitalists with 0 regard for human life....
I mean, who wouldn't want to bring a child into this world right now?
Eat shit.
Once again Gen-X is ignored. It's Gen-X hitting grandparenting age.
My two kids probably won't be parents, and I'm ok with that. I want them to be happy more than I want to enjoy grandkids. Whatever they choose, I'll be happy with.
I felt pressure from Boomer parents to have kids, and I didn't want to do the same to my kids. That's a hard nope.
"Oh no it's the consequences of my own actions!"
Shouldn't 'ave fucked up the economy and environment, simple as
Yeah cuz they're hoarding the houses.
Lmfao thanks for ruining our whole society, boomers. Reap what you've sowed.
Who writes this trash...
Imagine a society ran for benefit of gereatrics and nepo babies at the expense of young working people
Now open your eyes 🤡
How dare someone elses wants effect me!!
Make the world a place that will be liveable in 100 years and pay people enough to exist:
A) without children, and B) with children
and boom, problem solved. Statistically, anyway.
Elder millennial here. I had kids, my brother didn’t, and my kids, though young enough to change their minds, are adamant they won’t have kids.
I think the more interesting stat likely unfolding is the marked decrease of great grandparents in a generation.
To be clear this is not a “threat to society” or whatever, people can decide if they want kids or not. Just a shower thought.
Guess you shouldn't have been entitled little shits and fucked up the world, then.
Aww. Maybe if they didn’t spend their days treating their kids like their bank accounts and actually voted to help them afford things like housing and health care they’d have grandkids.
Instead they supported ghouls like trump and clinton instead of the guy who wanted to give everybody health care!
Boohoo
The most important generation.
even if I had kids my dad would be excluded from grandparenting due to the trump worship. don't need that kind of influence on the adult family members let alone kids.
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.
For some reason I'm not surprised about Facebook being explicitly boomer-centric
Some people seem to assume it's their right to become grandparents...
So the share that has grandkids is the share that can afford them, right?
Than before?
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.
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).
