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I think a big reason millennials seem less interested in having kids that I don't see discussed a lot: Boomers seemed to hate marriage and parenthood (hexbear.net)

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From a pretty early age I decided I didn't want to get married or have kids cuz both my parents seemed utterly miserable. For a long time I found it weird anyone wanted to do it at all, why would you want to be trapped with someone you hate who you get into screaming arguments all the time?

And it's not just me, you see a lot of jokes online about people like playing that one scene from Marriage Story while playing old N64 games for nostalgia.

I think the experience of seeing our own parents be so miserable maybe soured a lot of us on starting families.

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[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

there's a few things that get smushed together and hexbear usually isn't always interested in disentangling them

ideological anti-natalism isn't necessarily malthusian

not wanting to have kids usually isn't grandly ideological

having a "normal" amount of kids usually isn't grandly ideological (whatever normal means)

pronatalism is quiverfull shit and elon mailing his cum to people

there's no moral imperative toward a certain human population number (unless you're a voluntary extinctionist, 0, or a capitalist, infinity)

i could continue but my food is ready