Posted on 08/30/2022 6:17:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — At 24, El Johnson has made up her mind that she won’t bear children, though she and her girlfriend haven’t ruled out adoption.
The graduate student who works in legal services in Austin, Texas, has a list of reasons for not wanting to give birth: the climate crisis and a genetic health condition among them.
“I don’t think it’s responsible to bring children into this world,” Johnson said. “There are already kids who need homes. I don’t know what kind of world it’s going to be in 20, 30, 40 years.”
She’s so sure, in fact, that she’ll soon have her tubes removed. It’s a precautionary decision sealed by the fall of Roe v. Wade and by tight restrictions on abortion services in her state and around the country.
Other women interviewed also cited climate change, along with overwhelming student debt coupled with inflation, as reasons they’ll never be parents. Some younger men, too, are opting out and more are seeking vasectomies.
Jordan Davidson interviewed more than 300 people for a book out in December titled, “So When are You Having Kids?” The pandemic, she said, led many to delay childbirth among those contemplating children at all.
Fears about climate change have cemented the idea of living without children for many, Davidson said.
“Now with increased wildfires, droughts, heat waves, all of a sudden it is becoming real that, OK, this is happening during my time, and what is this going to look like during the time that my children are alive?” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
She and her girlfriend?
And she’s worried about having children?
Having completely drunk the libtard Koolaid, maybe she’s doing the world a favor by getting her tubes tied.
If I were that age, I’d be rather hesitant to have children in this declining society, too.
Now if we could just get immigrants. Both legal and illegal. On board
The one overarching reason the younger generations aren’t wanting to have and raise children is the one reason rarely spoken out loud....they are too accustom to a selfish, self-important and self-centered lifestyle and kids will ruin it for them. Pretty simple.
They start right off with a couple lesbians.
That’s not a serious article about fertility rates. That’s propaganda of one sort or another.
NEVER got ANY historical sense of her position in reality.
An entire public school education that filled her head with bullshit . . . and now she are one.
No hope for tomorrow, may as well get paid for doing what I'm told and never have a thought.
“El Johnson has made up her mind that she won’t bear children, though she and her girlfriend haven’t ruled out adoption”
She obviously is “not a biologist”.
That is as far as I got. The title should have led with, "Same sex couples can't make babies."
That was a common refrain in the 60s and 70s.
Has been cultural programming for the better part of a century now, but looking like legit reasons for it now.
Leftists who choose to be “non-birthing” people is good news. It would be better news if they choose to stop exhaling…for the sake of the planet.
Never even crossed their mind that they may give birth to the leader who solves the problems. No telling how many potential geniuses, inventors, entrepreneurs, healers, etc have been aborted over the years
The West’s suicide continues apace.
The less children that Leftist communists have, the better off society will be in the long run.
it’s okay NOT to want kids.
It’s okay to be selfish too.
I’m happy that they are selfish enough to know not to bring kids in the mix.
Selfish = lousy parents.
You nailed it. The selfishness shines out in all the examples.
She and her girlfriend?
Why is she getting her tubes tied?
The real reason?
Fear of death
That’s the beauty of being a lib. You get to be incoherent and still feel self-righteous
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.