Posted on 06/14/2024 5:47:05 PM PDT by Morgana
New research has confirmed that increasingly fewer Millennials and Gen Zers are having children, and there is a “scary” reason why.
More than half of 18- to 34-year-olds are choosing not to have children due to financial challenges, according to newly released data from Australian research company the Red Bridge.
Of the young people choosing not to have children, 35 percent are university-educated, and 33 percent are earning more than $2,000 a week.
Just under half don’t own a home.
Kos Samaras, director of Red Bridge, said the research is a sign of the times, and young people are financially strapped to a point where they can’t even consider bringing kids into the equation.
“The amount younger people have to pay out on mortgages or rent, they’ve also got HECS debt [student loans] and are often living beyond their means,” he told news.com.au.
Samaras said he believes that young Australians are likely planning to have children later in life, but by then, it’ll be more “difficult” for them.
“For previous generations, it took until their 30s to obtain financial security, and for Generation Z and Millennials, it’ll take well into their 40s,” he pointed out.
Ultimately, Samaras said, young people aren’t being dramatic by not starting families because, financially, it could cripple them.
“If you were a financial adviser of these young people, you’d be saying, ‘You can’t afford it,’” he said.
Influencer Laura Henshaw, 30, is one of those women who has put off having children. In fact, she’s not even sure if she wants them at all.
She recently launched a podcast aptly titled “Do I Want Kids?,” and she’s been discussing the issue endlessly, giving real insight into why so many young women aren’t sold on becoming moms.
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‘More than half of 18- to 34-year-olds are choosing not to have children due to financial challenges”
TRANSLATION: “...due to having to GIVE UP THEIR LIFESTYLE.”
Plus,they love abortion.
“It’s because they’re not having sex.”
That is actually true too!!!
Can’t have kids b/c they consider smartphones w/ data plans, Netflix, etc, Starbucks, delivery food and so forth as necessities.
You want kids, cut out the BS expenditures and put your family first.
The problem is that in order to cut back, they have to move somewhere where they can’t make enough to pay off their student loans.
College costs went up much more than other things over the past 40 or 50 years. It truly is a mess. Of course, we hear about the people who got $300k of student loans, which is absurd, but we were sold a bill of goods in the 1950s and 60s— that everyone should go to college. Everyone should have a white-collar job. Everyone should be above average.
Jobs became our central thing, our source of identity, and now we are paying for it.
Another thread today claimed that GEN Z people are TAKING THEIR PARENTS WITH THEM ON JOB INTERVIEWS-—INTO THE ACTUAL INTERVIEW WITH PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYER.
BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION.
Had first full time job at age 17—out of high school.
IMO-—WESTERN UNION NEEDS A SERIOUS AUDIT
The oldest genZ is 29.
“Most of the jobs that have been created are being taken by foreign born citizens & even illegals.”
Those without proof of visas should be deported.
Foreigners of every description have been “overstaying-visas” for decades; especially Middle-Easterners.
These are people our "Resident" has invited in. You know military aged men to provide an additional terror threat to Americans. After all, we are now the domestic terrorist threat to Democracy.
Dick Durbin has said they are America's future.
If you want to deport them you had better support that evil vile orange mean tweeting man, Donald John Trump.
College has gone up a lot, but that’s not the biggest issue. At some point, the wife had about $20M in college debt, and her monthly payment is $214. Obviously more debt is more, but most kids shouldn’t be that much higher. It’s just one of the expenses needed to be budgeted. Make and eat cheap basic food at home, have a roommate or two, buy a used dependable car and not the newest fancy one, keep your cell phone a couple years, and you’ve greatly reduced your biggest expenses going out.
People with a couple kids should already be well past working the basic $10 job and in low management or working at a different company that starts better because it isn’t a high-school level job.
I don’t disagree college is grossly inflated and not worth it for most, but that’s just a small side issue in the overall situation.
“Dr” Naomi Wolf is a PhD of Feminist Literature.
Keep that in mind when the conspiracy nuts pretend that she’s an authority on vaccines.
Or “vaccines”, as the fear porn crowd derides them.
The quotation marks are because the “vaccines” are “fake” and are actually genocidal poisons. Really.
What you may not know is that the same Daily Expose fan club also believes that there is no Covid virus. According to them it doesn’t exist and never did.
Imagine believing that the entire medical world has been making all of that up for four straight years. Tens of thousands medical researchers and drug companies involved in a giant conspiracy to fool you into taking a poison “jab” designed for mass murder.
What that makes of Donald Trump is anybody’s guess, since he remains proud of Operation Warp Speed and the vaccines it produced.
He’s heard all of the same crackpot theories that we have all been inundated with and remains unimpressed by the idiocy. Good for him.
You’re an out ‘n proud Trump hater, and a waste of time.
“You’re an out ‘n proud Trump hater, and a waste of time.”
lol. When you have to invent a lie to try to bail yourself out maybe it’s time that you answered the questions instead.
You once posted a lunatic paper by your Daily Expose pals claiming that “the Covid Virus Doesn’t Exist!!”
And it said that all of the Covid disease and dying has really been caused by “fake vaccines” that were poisons secretly administered before the pandemic.
I’m sure you that you remember that paper very well. I certainly do. I made a point of closely reading the material that you were posting from those Brit crackpots.
But apparently none of your fan club actually bothered to read what you were posting, which is pretty funny. It’s pretty obvious that they have no idea of what you really believe.
It seems that now that you’ve had time to think about how they’d react to that paranoid fantasy, that you’re perfectly happy that they don’t know exactly what you’re saying.
They probably aren’t crazy enough to swallow the idea that there is no virus at all.
They may be afraid of the vaccines, but they aren’t nutty enough to believe that the Covid virus itself doesn’t exist.
No, that’s the stuff pushed by David Icke, a Brit who is crazy enough to also believe in “lizard people”. Imagine being crazy enough to think that’s real. Fun times!
Oh I don’t read David Icke. You’re thrashing around like a toddler screaming for attention. You’re a waste of time...
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