I can’t afford it, and also am contemplating whether having children who will almost surely experience a near apocalyptic shift in climate is moral.

this is mostly it for me. If my retirement plan is dying in the climate wars aged 50, what does that mean for a kid born this year? die in the climate wars aged 20-25? the new generation understand summer as “forest fire season”, it’s the new normal and they don’t know anything before. I can’t imagine the despair as they grow older.

My rent is literally increasing $500 in the next lease and these motherfuckers are wondering “wHy nO kIDdS” fuck outta here :disgost:

There are many reasons, but people who grew up with boomer parents know how horrible it can be for the child if their parents have kids on a whim.

from my own experience with family I can tell you that the most appropriate reason to have children is to try and fix your marriage

I had a friend whose ex thought she could finally get him off heroin for good if they had a kid.

Now they have a kid with no dad because he’s off doing heroin god knows where. Truly conservative brainworm hours.

Everyone knows you don’t have kids to fix a marriage. You go poly

Eh, why not both? Double the fix, amirite

:deeper-sadness: :meow-hug:

I mean if I’m being totally cynical and honest here, I think some of it is that ours is the first generation to not have quite as much social peer pressure into having kids and we’re all collectively realizing that unless you REALLY want them it’s kind of a raw ass deal. Like putting the obvious issue of cost aside, even if we had full fucking socialism and having a kid cost nothing, it’s basically shitting out a tumor you’re chemically addicted to that you have to dedicate all your life energy into caring for because if you fuck up one thing it will turn into a demon hell spawn creature that hates you and will go on to make other people’s lives a living hell.

I don’t blame people for just wanting a fucking cat.

My cat is wonderful.

:data-outdoor-cat:

Then why’d you try and create a daughter?

nutsack full of microplastics and industrial pollutants gang

will never know the smallest amount of security in life gang

nothing to do in my shitty hyper-atomized neighbourhood gang

difficult to go anywhere without a car gang

go to school, get shot gang

Oh yeah fill me with your microplastic jizz bby I’m gonna have me an action figure baby. :panting:

Owls lay eggs, NOT BABIES :cri:

Wow, check your ageism sir.

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