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Maybe they shouldn’t horde and partition their wealth from their children and do everything possible to ensure every penny is spent before death.
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.
Yeah this is a good point. Young boomers are, what, 65?
About 59 I think.
Seems like old = boomers and young = millennials for journalist and a lot of people
Make college and homes unobtainable… You get what you get and you don’t get upset.
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.
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.
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your job on a whim, food is astronomically expensive, the political climate is tense, your basic human rights could be rescinded at any time, the future of the planet is being murdered by shitty capitalists with 0 regard for human life…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.
I’m hunting for a new job for the second time in less than a year, and I’m honestly a skilled professional with over 10 years of experience, with a lot of proof that I do great work. The labor market is stupid right now, just down right stupid. Full of executives searching for short term profits rather than anyone wanting to actually run a company well. That’s alone is a huge reason, on top of everything else. I don’t even know if I’ll have stable employment, and that means I don’t know if I’ll have stable health insurance - so genuinely what are any actual incentives to my generation to have kids? Literally are there any beyond just “you have a kid now”
It’s shit, right? I’m so sorry. I hope that stability comes to you very soon.
Reject tradition. You have no obligation to sacrifice your well-being because some old, out-of-touch fuckwads want something life-changing from you. Can’t even afford groceries.
They can foster a child if they want one around so badly. Or go sit at a park. Or volunteer at the church nursery or something, ffs.
bingo. The SO and I have talked about it, and we decided if we regret it a bit later and it’s too late, adoption is always a valid choice. After all, we’re not bringing new life in so we don’t have to feel guilty about that, but instead we would be giving a home to someone else who needs one. However, there are still many, many negatives as to why we don’t want to or simply can’t right now.
Shouldn’t 'ave fucked up the economy and environment, simple as
“Oh no it’s the consequences of my own actions!”
I want the lions share of the profits of our economy! I want to pull the ladder up behind me! Why aren’t these lazy millennials having kids for me!?
You’re entitled millennials!
/Vomit
you fucking millennials and your avocado toast cost me grandbebbies!
Yeah cuz they’re hoarding the houses.
Guess you shouldn’t have been entitled little shits and fucked up the world, then.
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 🤡
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.
The real solution has always been immigration to get more bodies in the country managing the economy. It’ll never happen though.
Doesn’t that just kick the can down the road?
No. The world population will hit 10 billion in the year 2040. The only question is whether there will be enough people to keep the first world going or not.
It’ll never happen though.
Lolwat?
To replace the existing population, you have to throw open the gates and let people in. No country is willing to do that.
How dare someone elses wants effect me!!
Wouldn’t this be prime age for boomers to be great grandparents? Unless they mean paying for their grandkids college…
Boomers are 1946-1964. Definitely the older in the generation are in the great grandparent years, especially if they and their kids had kids young, but the younger boomers, especially if they and their kids had their first kids later, will be grandparents.
I wouldn’t exactly call that prime time for them to be grandparents, then…
if they had kids at 30 their kids could have kids at 30.
“If” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
And that’s still just for the youngest of that generation, not the whole of it… I don’t know about you, but I’d hardly call a minority of a minority “prime”.
