Posted on 07/05/2018 2:53:18 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Jessica Boer, 26, kissing her cat Kip at her home in Portage, Mich. Like an increasing number of people in her generation, she does not plan to have children. Now we know we have a choice, she said.
Wanting more leisure time and personal freedom; not having a partner yet; not being able to afford child-care these were the top reasons young adults gave for not being sure they wanted children, reports a new survey conducted by Morning Consult for the NYT.
About a quarter said they expected to have fewer than they wanted. The largest shares said they delayed or stopped having children because of concerns about having enough time or money.
It is partly about greater gender equality. Women have more agency over their lives; motherhood has become more of a choice.
But its also a story of economic insecurity. Young people have record student debt, many graduated in a recession and cant afford homes all as parenthood has become more expensive.
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David Carlson, 29, graduated from college in 2010, when the job market was still rough. He and his wife had $100,000 in undergraduate debt between them. They both work full time he in corporate finance and she in counseling but they dont yet feel they can take time away from their careers.
He said theyd consider adoption if they decided to have children but had waited too long. Another option for having children later in life is egg freezing. Only 1 percent of female survey respondents said they had frozen their eggs but almost half said they would if not for the cost.
Whether the young generation will catch up later is not certain, but will depend on their capacity to combine work and family.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sadly, there seems to be more Millennials ( and they’re liberals or extreme lefties )who are like the ones in the article, than the other kind. On the bright side, the “TREND” ones aren’t reproducing, so there is that.
LPNs of course.
They are not being licenses anymore in our state.
You are so right about all the unmarried and divorced women who are enslaved.
Good analysis. I don’t agree with it all but I agree with most.
An economic recovery such that people feel they can afford the children they want is a good start.
Cultural elevation of parenthood to a moral good and/or duty would help. Certainly something other than the message now that kids get, that life is going to be unlivable in their lifetimes from environmentalist dogma, that it is cruel to have more than one or two children for the sake of the planet and species ...
The only thing God cannot forgive is evil done in His name, because it can irrevocably turn people away from God, thinking that the evil is associated WITH God.
I wonder to what degree the sharp decline in religious belief in the West is because of the horrors of World War 1 and World War 2, evils often done in the name of God and Country.
The evils of Communism were all written off as the evils of nationalism or the leadership of particular individuals. Of course, liberals intentionally blamed nationalism instead of socialism/communism. It fits with their agenda of everyone in a godless universal socialist state.
Amen Times Ten.
I see what you’re saying here. It is indeed very disturbing.
Married women tend to vote like their husbands, and many are conservative.
Single and divorced women tend to vote for big government because that’s the financial replacement for the husband.
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