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[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago

There is a reason for declining child birth numbers... it has everything to do with more people knowing what they are really getting into.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I don't need more reasons to not want children, I'm already decided, but this thread is sure reaffirming.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

And that everyone's too damn poor. Babysitter? Not on average wages! No one wants to give up all of their time and money for kids they might not be able to provide for.

[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Being poor has very little to with having children. The poor across the world have more children than the wealthy.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That doesn't change the motivations of millions of people in the world. You know, the kind of numbers that can produce a massive dip in data...

[-] bunchberry@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Well if there was public daycare to take the stress off of parents who couldn't deal with it then it wouldn't be as big of an issue.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah we had to raise our siblings. Ain't raising another generation without being paid for it. It's why we work in education.

[-] grindemup@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I don't really follow your train of thought. People would have been just as aware (if not more, due to the prevalence of multigenerational households) of this in the past as they are now, no?

In the past people didn't have access to a device with endless information about how rough it is the raise kids. Instead they had other local parents as a source, and those parents just wanted company in thier misery.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

When I was a kid we used to just get thrown outside along with all the other kids and told not to come back until lunch time.

We used to get up to all sorts no one cared. At one point someone's dad took us all to the beach which was about an hour away, we all just got in this strangers car (never met him before) and went to the beach. I don't remember my parents been even remotely bothered by that when they found out.

There definitely was a "they are replaceable" attitude back then. Now try to imagine the generations before us, when 13 kids wasn't that abnormal. And that 13 only counted the ones that survived.

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