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I mean not enough children being born and an ageing population does create huge problems, we can see that in other countries like for example China, Korea and Japan. They’re desperate for people to have more kids but turns out it’s not an easy trend to reverse so the sociatal and economic issues will only continue to grow.
For the individual it could be very upsetting and a huge lifelong sorrow as well if they actually want children but for example can’t afford it, can’t find a partner they want a family with, can’t because of fertility issues or whatever the problem may be. But a lot of people these days sinoly don’t want kids. They want to ”focus ob their career” or dedicate their lives to pets or travel. It’s ok to not want kids, but in general I think sociaty has moved towards a more individualistic mindset and a lot of people lack family values nowadays. Why is another question compeltely, but personally I think things like people who are younger adults today grew up in daycare and didn’t see their family much. Both parents worked, still struggled financially and were exhausted and that’s the impression these now adult kids have of parenthood - that it’s hard, requires you to work all the time and still only afford the basic stuff because everything is so expensive, you don’t see your kids much because work/daycare/school anyway and it just appears very tiring and like it causes lots of stress and problems to be a parent. It’s not weird that lots of people then decide that no, I don’t want that kind of life I’d rather just skip out on kids and have a more calm, peaceful life filled with travel or whatever they may like. They’ve also always been told to not get pregnant/get someone pregnant or your life is over, don’t have kids until you’re older and experienced what you want to experience and so on. Those who do have kids get told not to have more than two, don’t have them too close in age and yada yada yada. People who have more than two kids or close in age get judged and told, with a horrified or judgmental tone, things like ”but now you’re for sure done having kids”, like it’s someone elses business or thing to decide.
i don’t know if you were expecting for people to agree with you and say women should stay devoting their lives to getting married and having children again but i see a good chunk of people just don’t care cause it’s not their life. maybe you should do the same cause it doesn’t concern you unless you’re actively looking for 29-39 year old women to marry and impregnant.. but even then they still exist so i don’t personally see a problem at all. in fact i’m for glad for them, pregnancy is no easy journey (i’ve heard all my life).
This would involve a really deep dive into modern cultural trends, but the factors you listed are contributors. The biggest although vague contributor could be summed up with "hookup culture." It has completely devalued not even just marriage, but even long term and committed relationships as a whole. Modern feminist movements encourage cheating, divorce and abortion among other things, but that is definitely secondary. Of the people cited in your survey data, how many of them dated, or were even previously married in their teens and twenties? I'm willing to bet it's quite high, and I'm willing to bet that a lot of them have stopped looking because of multiple bad experiences that have led to "all men are pigs/all women are sluts/gold-diggers" mentalities. Much of that is because those same people keep chasing the same types and can't understand why it never works out. I can't think of any of my married and stable friends off the top of my head who didn't meet their best match by going a bit outside of what they thought their comfort zones were, and coming to realize that they previously didn't understand what really mattered in a partner.
Yes, I'm worried and will continue to be until 99% of people are childless, for a period over 100 years. That would decrease the world population of humans down to a more reasonable number, then I could stop worrying about the impact of this species on the environment.
Aside from that, I'm not really worried about people being single, that's great for them if that's what they are choosing, and obviously they are, since if they wanted to be in relationships, they would find other people who also wanted the same thing, and do so. It's simple. Unmarried? Nbd to me, marriage is a ceremony and a contract. Like a bat mitzvah or a merger of two companies. I don't really care what ceremonies or contracts people are or aren't engaging in; again, if they want to, they will, if they don't want to, they won't. Doesn't bother me either way. Check out this article on why marriage is overrated.
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There are an awful lot of problems with what you said.
Firstly, where is the supporting data.
Secondly, it is not clear exactly is meant by 'childless and unmarried' is it both of these things or either / or?
Unmarried does not mean 'not in a serious and committed relationship.'
Single parent does not mean bad parent.
So even if the data set is accurate and in fact is measuring what you are trying to promote which i will define as something like '53% of women in the age range raise children in a positive way' that still incorrectly assumes that these women are not having children at any point during their 30's. Many who haven't had children at 29 may well have had children by 39.
Many couples are able to have perfectly healthy children in their late 30's and even 40's and perhaps beyond, Im not sure what the data on that is exactly but as far as I am aware that is not a particularly serious problem though presumably there is an increased risk of problems which scales with age.
The long and the short of it is 'Garbage in, garbage out'.
Your (non existant) data set is ill suited to informing opinion.
I can see both sides of the argument. It is ultimately a woman's decision if she wants to have children or not. Additionally, having children is an expensive life changing decision that cannot be undone. When a (responsible) parent decides to raise a child, they will most likely have to sacrifice their own personal, financial and career goals. Not everyone is willing or even capable of doing this.
At the same time, children are the future and marriage is the glue that keeps our society in place. The obvious problem is that no children means a decrease in the labor force. However, another not so blatant issue is that having too many single men will destabilize society. Violence and crime will increase because too many young men will have nothing to lose. Why should they care if they don't have a spouse or children to look after?
From a liberal/feminist perspective, it is not worrying as it symbolizes female empowerment and independence. (which is not inherently wrong).
On the other hand, the lack of children and surplus of single men will likely lead to a much more destabilized society. That is extremely worrisome.
Yes. This is problematic if you look at the issue from a statistical POV AND if you care about America remaining to be the country we know. We are not a perfect Nation by any stretch of the imagination. However, we should be grateful we have come as far as we have in such a short period of time. We still have a lot of work to do, but its possible.
America is the great melting pot, a beacon for freedom, and a safe haven for those seeking a better life. That being said, many of the cultures that are moving here have many more children than Anericans -of all races. Statistics don't lie. Last I checked we need to have a birth rate of 2.5 ( yes, 2 and a half) children per family to avoid being slowly pushed out of existence simply because many of our immigrant families, Muslims for example, have something like 6 to 8 children per household. You do the math over time, and that is how we as American born citizens end up a minority in our own country, and then slowly dissappear.
Disclaimer: Please don't take what I have said as a racist statement. It's just what I learned while studying Analytical Geography. My partner and I are childless by choice, if that tells you anything.
Without touching on overpopulation and other ideas that fall in line with that thought process, I would say it’s only a concern for those who wish to be married and have children. My husband and I had children later in life because we chose to get established as a household with an income that could support children and our retirement goals.
there is definitely a focus establishing a comfortable household with an income that allows you to save some money, and it’s not just men that have that goal. I think we all could also take note that finding a partner is more challenging now. Mentalities have changed from those of our parents. The commitment to be a parent is huge, and expensive. You definitely give up some of your freedoms in order to spend time with your kids. We find it rewarding, not all who are parents do.
Nope. Not at all. Nuh-uh. Nada. Nor. Never. Not at all. Negative.
It's COMPLETELY their choice. There may be some that argue that humankind could go extinct, but to that I laugh - there are so many kids in foster just waiting to be adopted, we don't need more births. I have never felt the pain of childbirth because I am a man, but I do know it is over 100 times the pain of getting hit in the junk by a baseball. It is the woman's right to choose whether they want to bring a baby into this world or continue living their life, or get married to some stupid man (i'm not saying all of us men are stupid, i'm just saying that a lot are).
Qell I mean that statistic dosent mean much, the can still have kids if they want, not that I'm worried about it cause we are already over populated. And unmarried dosent mean they are single, so how many percent of the 53 percent are either currently dating someone or looking for someone?
I Mena if 53 percent are just choosing to be alone that sucks for men cause they'd be forced to be alone, or maybe all the guys in their age group are chasing the girls in the young 20s and forcing them to be alone.
If they want to be alone they can it's their chose, sucks for guys but you can't force them to date guys. And that may not even be what's happening, you didn't tell us why they are unmarried and again maybe they are in a relationship just not married.
This is a nothing burger of a problem, we need more details.
I don't feel worried about it. What worries me is that we have a lot of people, both men and women, that are not prepared for all the heralds that come with adulthood. So they end up playing catch up from the age 30 onward because they never really prepared to be a adult from their late teens and 20's. So when life throws then a curve ball at some point their life pretty much blows up. Things budgeting, living on a budget and having at least two months of living expenses tucked away in a saving account seem to be lost arts. So we end up with men and women that are paying off a credit card with another credit card.
I think it's at best a problem of society. It's true that we don't live in a time where at least in the west family isn't of value anymore.
If women want to work let them I don't see much of a problem in that.
If we had a culture in which motherhood would be accepted and it would work out well for both partners I think more women would see it as a valid option.
But because many guys are not ready to take the whole responsibility and are not sure what they want from a woman or how to handle life and money more and more women believe they are better on their own.
I think it is a problem but it's way deeper than many people think
It's excellent, it means that MGTOW and RedPill ideology is working. Men are no longer committing to a marriage where the laws are so stacked against them that the best way to win is not to play. Over half of the marriages end in divorce, with women filing 70-80% of divorces, with men paying alimony 90 % of the times, and losing vast majority of the child custody cases.
Women, biologically have a narrow window for childbirth and still narrower for low risk pregnancy and carrying the child fully to term. So this is a more concerning matter for women as compared to men.
No. It's not worrying. It's not our business that people have unmarried kids.
If they like it - it's okay. Let's care about our life :)
This is one symptom of a declining culture, and the West is in terminal decline. It is a problem because life will become more difficult for each successive generation, who will see their wealth stripped via taxation in an attempt to support a huge elderly population. Elderly people will be more apt to die alone with substandard or no medical care due to lack of family and workers to care for them. If immigration is used to solve the problem, those of Western descent will end up as aliens in their own land, and possibly persecuted.
I think sometimes it's just lack of opportunity. Like in my case I couldn't find a guy who wanted to stay committed to me long enough to marry me. If I would have I most likely would have wanted to started a family. After too many rejections I just gave up and decided to I didn't need to keep experiencing heartbreak just to not get anywhere in life and I decided go at life alone but I don't consider myself a feminist.
After reading that, i do. But in the end of the day, the brought that upon themselves, didn't they? It is not like that here, in Bulgaria.
Probably because it costs over $300,000 to raise a son/daughter from a baby to age 18. Not cheap. Multiply that times 3 kids and you would need a $million smackers. The illegals have big families because they get birth expenses paid for by the government on our dimes, plus free health care. That is why they usually have bigger families.
Have you ever thought of the fact that some women simply don’t want kids?
if a woman wanted kids , she can have kids. She can easily go to the sperm bank or even sleep around or find a coparent.
women don’t need a husband to have kids. But men need wives to have kids
No surprise. They never had stable work, income. They is propoganda taught at schools. If they did go to college they may owe thousands of dollars. Same thing happened to me but I am older now. If you have to move all over your country for work and support yourself you will understand.
It’s sad as Women have bought into the lies of the Ruler of this World. There’s no Joy in being a man…emulating a man. Toil was punishment by God and childbearing Blessing. Women possess the responsibility of Self-Preservation and popping out babies 👶 is the key to Self-Preservation. Any Fool can make Money…and it’s not Fun to make, keep-away from, and Keep.
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Maybe a issue for population but other than that is just sad that these women aren't getting the full experience out of life.
Like I'd say to live a full life and experience the most love and happiness possible you have to have a child to do that. There is loving your friends, family, spouse but there is nothing on this earth that can ever come close to a mother/baby bond and the amazing love that comes from that.
Why would I be worried?
It is quite obvious that American society is refusing to evolve. We have definite issues. And we cannot tackle them without talking about them openly and honestly.
We used to be a society where all a man had to do was get a basic education, a job, and he could take care of an entire family.
And when we started to destroy his ability to do that, we started to destroy the nuclear family.
Why it is a problem? Pregnancy is literally a torture and traumatize your body. You can loose all your teeth, hair, etc. Will you donate your teeth, etc? Will you emotionally, financially etc help these women? No, then it is not of your business. Women ain't baby machines
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