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3 in 10 Young Adults Don’t Have or Want to Have Children: Poll
The Washington Stand ^ | November 5, 2024 | Joshua Arnold

Posted on 11/05/2024 1:26:12 PM PST by Morgana

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"who said that Millennials “are concerned about the impact of humans on our climate.”"

There you have it in a nutshell.

Not to worry, some if not most of those women will hit the time when their biological clock will go off like a nuclear alarm and they will pop out a baby or two.

1 posted on 11/05/2024 1:26:12 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

It gets much worse if you break it down by race.


2 posted on 11/05/2024 1:27:24 PM PST by montag813
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To: Morgana

What was it 20 years ago?


3 posted on 11/05/2024 1:28:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
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What is the breakdown? People are voting with their choices.


4 posted on 11/05/2024 1:28:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Morgana

Exactly what I would say. I see them around all the time especially couples that are both professionals and they don’t want to mess with their careers but in the end that urge to have a child gets to them.


5 posted on 11/05/2024 1:28:43 PM PST by tiki (To)
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To: montag813

I’d say break it down by religion or the lack thereof.


6 posted on 11/05/2024 1:29:42 PM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Morgana

That’s fine, Karen’s shouldn’t have children.


7 posted on 11/05/2024 1:30:39 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Morgana

A symptom of not teaching history, culture, religion, and nation, nothing matters except the now and the self and the more you get, and the filling of the moment.


8 posted on 11/05/2024 1:31:43 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Morgana

While we are in full swing of “idiocracy”, just see what numbers Harris pulls tonight, this fits in with it.


9 posted on 11/05/2024 1:31:54 PM PST by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
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“What was it 20 years ago?”

I knew a lot of girls in HS who said they would never have kids. Some of those girls to this day never did but some did. It’s kinda 50/50. That was more than 20 years ago mind you.


10 posted on 11/05/2024 1:33:06 PM PST by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul )
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Well, it means that 7 out 10 have to make up for the difference.

How do we help them?


11 posted on 11/05/2024 1:34:21 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Well, it means that 7 out 10 have to make up for the difference.

How do we help them?


12 posted on 11/05/2024 1:34:30 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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31 yrs old and I didn’t want kids. Now I have 5. Let God lead you, and the dreams you didn’t know you had, come true.


13 posted on 11/05/2024 1:34:40 PM PST by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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“Now I have 5”

When God said “Go ye there for and populate the Earth” you didn’t have to take it that seriously LOL


14 posted on 11/05/2024 1:37:14 PM PST by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul )
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I don't remember any girls when I was in high school who said they didn't want to have kids, but I don't think they shared that kind of info, or maybe they told their friends.

I've heard of enough people who didn't want kids, then ended up wanting them later, but I've heard of many, many people who wanted children, but didn't end up having them.

15 posted on 11/05/2024 1:37:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
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My childbearing years were 50 years ago and I never wanted children. Just four-footed ones. Grateful to all of you who kept humanity going. Grateful also that individuals always had a choice in the matter.

If I’d ever gotten pregnant, I would have had the child and never had an abortion. Glad I never got into that situation. One of my friends became an “it” in her early 20’s. Never wanted to go that far.

It’s so much more common now not to have children than it was back then. But even back then I don’t remember any pressure to have kids. Just that enjoyable friends suddenly became excruciatingly boring when they did and their topics of conversation devolved.

Career has always been everything to me and children would have wrecked it because I would have made them priority. I’m 80 now and dancing on tiptoes that the issue never had to be faced.

Thank you - every one of you - who had the children for those of us who didn’t want them.


16 posted on 11/05/2024 1:42:28 PM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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To: Morgana

Those 3 are probably Donks, in time that population will take care of its self


17 posted on 11/05/2024 1:43:10 PM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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One of my friends became an “it” in her early 20’s. Never wanted to go that far.

Wait, do you mean the friend became nonbinary? I didn't even think they had that then. I wouldn't think having a tubal ligation makes one an "it." What exactly did this person do?

18 posted on 11/05/2024 1:45:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I see them around all the time especially couples that are both professionals and they don’t want to mess with their careers but in the end that urge to have a child gets to them.

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Not Clevon!


19 posted on 11/05/2024 1:47:06 PM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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Hysterectomy. She REALLY didn’t want the slightest chance of having kids.


20 posted on 11/05/2024 1:49:21 PM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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