Predators dont breed in captivity. If you have kids you are sheep /s
The vasectomy was the best thing I did for my kids.
Do you see the nightmare the world has become? Of course they are having fewer kids. Why would you want to bring an innocent life into this horrific bullshit?
their choice
it’s not really a choice for a lot though, is it?
It’s true that it’s not 100% a choice, but physically there’s nothing stopping people from having kids. People are (fairly) prioritizing their financial security over having kids.
Though this may be a comment on abortion. In which case abortion is healthcare and a human right.
Not even sure if financial security is even the right term. If you can barely keep food and roof over your head (and healthcare is already not an option) then having children means losing one or the other for yourself and the kids. I mean its not like the ones who want people to have more babies are going to make sure snap benefits are always available much less healthcare.
When I see what a hassle having kids is, how stressful it is, the expense, and dire prospects of a good economic future it makes no sense.
The most cynical narcissist will have kids so someone will take care of them in their old age but how likely is that?
I just don’t see why I’d want to. It doesn’t make sense.
i can barely feed myself. why would i raise a child in hunger?
This. Its more about shelter for me but yeah can barely keep things together as it is. Then factor in how it looks to be getting worse and worse for each generation and any kids born now are just on the crux of whatever they are going to call the next one.
I want to have kids but I just can’t afford it
The world is being destroyed, physically, economically, and culturally by a small and malignant infestation of greedy parasites. There is little hope for future so why would people want to bring their children into it?
This comment is getting way too many upvotes. The world is not that bad and I’m sure 99% of people alive today would rather be alive than to never have been born. I’m not saying it’s that good but it’s not so bad that I would rather be not born.
Oh I completely disagree. If humans had a simple offswitch the world population would crater. Basically if wanting to be dead made people dead we would have a massive amount of dead people fast.
No, it is not too bad today but what about in a year? In 5 years? 10? 20? If you bring another human into this world you always have the thoughts about this new person and want it to have its best life. Today is fine but I doubt 20 years from now will look fine. Probably much sooner than that and it will not look very fine any longer.
And no, I don’t regret being born either. Just wish people stopped being so ignorant and stupid.
‘Cause this is Lemmy.
Look, I love this place and sympathize with the sentiment, but it’s also structured as a dramatized, extreme echo chamber. This neat little oasis amongst the burning internet is not (at least for me) representative of real life.
We are pampering pandas in zoos to make them want to fuck. We increase the quality of life for livestock, we add the opportunity to free roaming to chicken farms, etc.
Yet when it comes to humans it’s some kind of unsolvable mystery why we don’t feel like mating.
Maybe bitching about it on TV might help?
I definitely feel like mating.
I just don’t to reproduce.
Yeah, well. Same. But not what I wanted to say 😂
Our leaders have abandoned their stewardship of our population in favor of stewarding only the accounts and balance sheets. If human needs are widely neglected the humans will stop reproducing.
Capitalism kills humankind one way or another
I’m not sure if this is an issue due to capitalism, I think it’s an issue due to education and wealth. The more education and wealth a country has the lower average birth rate.
It’s creating a snowball effect in Japan, as schools, daycares and kindergartens close down it’s getting harder and harder to find people to watch kids when people need to work. Most daycares have waiting list and point systems determining how much “need” a set of parents have for daycare because there’s not enough of them.
Let’s just go ahead and transform that dirty old economy then. Rent control, strong antitrust enforcement, safer schools, higher paying jobs, tax the rich, better urban design. Don’t nobody want to bring kids into this hellhole.
