Kids in europe walk from early to school and can drive by bisycle pretty far alone, without the police almost shoot parents for leaving children 1 hour alone outside.
Same happens in the USA all the time. Don't let media impressions fill you.
Kids These Days
11–20 of 108 posts
Re: Kids These Days
#12> but, given that all of their peers have adopted it, there is a serious social cost to opting out.
The same was true of smoking. A combination of gov regulation and social stigma have managed to reduce smoking rates.
Re: Kids These Days
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I specifically do not want kids because it feels like I would be shortchanging them. I imagine all generations think it was better in their day. But you are right. Owning a car is absurdly expensive, public transit is pretty grim in the US and definitely not cheap, plus our food supply is literal slop. Even the cheap stuff is expensive now. It is truly depressing. I can’t imagine being a kid who has to navigate all t…
> I imagine all generations think it was better in their day. This might be objectively true these days, considering climate change.
Have you ever heard of leaded gas?
Re: Kids These Days
#14Kids in europe walk from early to school and can drive by bisycle pretty far alone, without the police almost shoot parents for leaving children 1 hour alone outside.
Same happens in the USA all the time. Don't let media impressions fill you.
Walking or riding my bike to school was certainly not an option. I know very few people (no one?) for which those were options. It was difficult to visit my friends as well so I spent a lot of time alone.
Re: Kids These Days
#15> They have access to cheap travel, better food What cheap travel? Better food compared to when? Most kids are obese eating poisoned food.
I specifically do not want kids because it feels like I would be shortchanging them. I imagine all generations think it was better in their day. But you are right. Owning a car is absurdly expensive, public transit is pretty grim in the US and definitely not cheap, plus our food supply is literal slop. Even the cheap stuff is expensive now. It is truly depressing. I can’t imagine being a kid who has to navigate all t…
Shortchanging? Do you have any idea what a "typical" middle class lifestyle was like in the 1960s? (Not the romanticized one). Do you think they were eating organic avocados?
Life and technology and healthcare and many other things are objectively better in many, many ways.
Re: Kids These Days
#16> They have access to cheap travel, better food What cheap travel? Better food compared to when? Most kids are obese eating poisoned food.
When was the last time you met somebody who only walked all thier life? Never rode a horse because only the rich could afford such things. When was the last time you had no food? Starvation used to be a real problem. I'm not taking about running short at the end of the month, I'm talking about there isn't food for even the wealthy people. Food today is safer than ever. You talk about poison, but that is pure lie, it…
> You talk about poison, but that is pure lie
I think it's fairly well accepted that the high obesity rates are caused by the shifting American diet. Yes it's more available than the 1950s (although I suspect not terribly so), but the effect it has on public health has been a nightmare.
Re: Kids These Days
#17> They have access to cheap travel, better food What cheap travel? Better food compared to when? Most kids are obese eating poisoned food.
I specifically do not want kids because it feels like I would be shortchanging them. I imagine all generations think it was better in their day. But you are right. Owning a car is absurdly expensive, public transit is pretty grim in the US and definitely not cheap, plus our food supply is literal slop. Even the cheap stuff is expensive now. It is truly depressing. I can’t imagine being a kid who has to navigate all t…
I guess this is just what selection pressure looks like. It’s possible that adults who struggle to navigate social media and agitprop to the extent that they can’t imagine being able to raise kids in the 21st century might actually be right that their offspring would also struggle.
Re: Kids These Days
#18[flagged]
Re: Kids These Days
#19That was a great article, or maybe it was just a lot of gibberish that failed to say much of anything.