• maximumbird@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Not going to happen with the way that rights are being toppled daily, and things only continue to get more expensive.

    I’d sooner get an irreversible sterilization than risk having a fucking child in 2025 fascist trumperica.

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    17 hours ago

    These moral bullshit arguments don’t matter. It’s not a moral problem, it’s economic. If people are able to afford the children during prime child rearing age they will have them. Case in point are the wealthy in america having a much higher fertility rate than the poor. There is no economic incentive for children, it is in fact such an incredible economic drain on most households that they literally cannot afford it. https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-babies-for-the-rich-the-relationship-between-status-and-children-is-changing

    • pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz
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      16 hours ago

      I don’t think it’s fair to say that it’s only an economic issue. Plenty of well off couples, some I personally know, could easily afford kids and just don’t want them.