Why Gen Z doesn't want kids - we are living out a fantasy of eternal youth
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Sorry but what relevance is this to the article?
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#4> Perhaps the only way to make this inevitable tide of pressure and debate work for us is first to recognise it as a collective issue, then to push for a system which does not actively punish women for having children: affordable childcare so that we do not face a career cliff edge; affordable housing so that settling down seems even remotely possible.
There it is - Gen Z simply can't afford to have children. Student loans make it quite difficult to pay for daycare and childcare - especially for infants. Add in the pressure for launching and establishing careers and the whole "baby thing" is being pushed off until the ladies are in their 30s. By that time, they may also be too entrenched in their bachelorette lifestyle to actually get married and have kids.
BUT - is this a bad thing, really? As we automate more and more and push more and more people permanently out of the job market - and thus not mess up our ever-rosy unemployment numbers - do we really need these people? Isn't this just a case of the market reacting to the ever-weakening demand for flesh-and-blood human beings? It feels a bit distasteful to state things in those terms, but truth be told, isn't that what is happening?
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#6> Perhaps the only way to make this inevitable tide of pressure and debate work for us is first to recognise it as a collective issue, then to push for a system which does not actively punish women for having children: affordable childcare so that we do not face a career cliff edge; affordable housing so that settling down seems even remotely possible. There it is - Gen Z simply can't afford to have children. Student…
Yes, I look at kids today and I can't imagine what their life will look like in a decade or two. I was very pessimistic in 2014 and here in 2024, I can't believe how much worse things are than I imagined back then. Political dysfunction is obvious, and the financialization of every aspect of life crept up faster than I could have imagined. And climate change is hitting faster than I thought it would while we ever increase our carbon emissions. I don't know what I'd tell a kid to do or hope for.
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It's my eternal retort to Unherd's conservative-bloc opinion pieces that wind up on this site. They will blame everything except the economy; parents, kids, pavlovian response, inherited habits, queer sensibility, conservative grit, drug addicts, city planners, farmers, communists, futurists, luddites, terrorism, journalism, therapists, athletes, aliens, politicians, rebels, reformists, radicals and apparently, apathetic moms too.
But it would never be the economy's fault. Raising children is one of the most notoriously cheap American pasttimes! It's uh... gay people's fault! That's right. The gay people did this.