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11 brutally honest reasons millenials don't want kids
When it comes to embarking on the journey of parenthood, lots of millennials are saying, "Meh. No, thanks."
According to data from the Urban Institute, birth rates among 20-something women declined 15% between 2007 and 2012. Additional research from the Pew Research Center reflects a longer-term trend of women eschewing parenthood as the number of U.S. women who choose to forego motherhood altogether has doubled since 1970.
This trend is fascinating, in part because there's long been a taboo associated with people (particularly, women) choosing to opt out of parenthood. Women who choose not to have kids have been referred to as "shallow" and "self-absorbed," and even the pope has said the decision not to procreate is fundamentally "selfish."
In an effort to find out why so many young people are really deciding against parenthood, we solicited dozens of responses from our audience via Tumblr and Google Forms. The responses we received from people of all sexes and identities reveal that there are myriad reasons why people are opting out of parenthood — and all of them are equally valid.
11 brutally honest reasons...
'Kids were crying'
Autistic traits, behavioral problems in 7-year-olds linked with gender nonconforming play
‘Absolutely dumb’ argument over ‘parenting skills’ leaves one dead
Mom Accused Of Taping Her Mother To Chair For 24 Hours
Coach accused of offering $5,000 to buy children from parents
Italy makes it illegal to seek surrogacy abroad
Why are we catching more diseases from animals?
The world is grappling with the new coronavirus, which has spread from China to at least 15 other countries.
Outbreaks of new infectious diseases are typically seen as a "one off".
But the new virus - thought to have stemmed from wildlife - highlights our risk from animal-borne disease. This is likely to be more of a problem in future as climate change and globalisation alter the way animals and humans interact.
How can animals make people ill?
In the past 50 years, a host of infectious diseases have spread rapidly after making the evolutionary jump from animals to humans.
The HIV/Aids crisis of the 1980s originated from great apes, the 2004-07 avian flu pandemic came from birds, and pigs gave us the swine flu pandemic in 2009. More recently, it was discovered severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) came from bats, via civets, while bats also gave us Ebola.
Humans have always caught diseases from animals. In fact, most new infectious diseases come from wildlife.
Why are we catching more diseases from animals
Some pet owners are advocating against rabies vaccines
Hundreds of baby emperor penguins stranded on breakaway iceberg miraculously survive
Cats Kill a Staggering Number of Species across the World
Exotic species such as pythons, Asian carp and cane toads often dominate the invasive species discourse. Few biological invaders, however, have wreaked as much ecological havoc as one of our most cuddly companions: cats.
Cats Kill a Staggering Number of Species
CHILDHOOD CAT EXPOSURE ONCE AGAIN LINKED TO SCHIZOPHRENIA
Wyoming hunter tortured wolf, paraded it around bar then shot it dead
Having a Cat Can Double Your Chances of Developing Schizophrenia
Horrifying last moments of mum eaten alive by safari park tiger
FURIOUS MONKEYS TEAR DOWN ANTI-MONKEY POSTERS
Dog owner allegedly decapitates bulldog after adopting him
City Defends Cop Who Shot Man's Blind, Deaf Dog
Las Vegas valley struggles with rabbit overpopulation
To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It's the only way
The science is clear: without drastic action to limit temperature rise below 1.5C, the Earth, and all life on it, including all human beings, will suffer devastating consequences.
To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It's the only way
Scientists fear Earth may have gone past the point of no return with climate change
Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds
Reforestation hopes threaten global food security, Oxfam warns
Patient in Guinea is killed by disease that causes 88% of sufferers to bleed to death
...it is considered a breach for a mother to throw her daughter a shower...
Why climate change activists have failed to score public support
US abortion numbers have risen
Filicide
Americans Just Want Immigrants for the Food
In 2016, Donald Trump posed in front of a taco bowl, fresh from Trump Tower Grill, and declared “I love Hispanics!” It fooled only the very gullible. Taco bowls, while delicious, are to Mexico what unlimited salad and breadsticks are to Tuscany, and his love for one didn’t stop him from trapping hundreds of Latin migrants at border camps. Trump can eat as many taco bowls as he wants, but he’s still racist.
Unfortunately, a new survey confirms that Americans, and people all over the world, tend to have Trump’s mindset when it comes to immigrants (or just non-white people), their contributions to culture, and their food. A YouGov survey of seven European countries and the U.S. found that the “most commonly agreed benefit of immigration has been better food.” The only country that responded differently was France, where everyone was more focused on how immigrants could make their soccer team better. And while the food may be a boon, Americans at least are still worried about providing welfare to migrants, and the (unfounded) crime risk of letting immigrants into the country. Though Americans were the most accepting of any of the countries surveyed, just “one in four Americans (30%) believe [immigration] only brings benefits.” We want your food...we just don’t want you.
Americans Just Want Immigrants for the Food
Big Apple is 'near a breaking point'
500 migrants sneak across Texas border in just two hours
Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches
Beloved Mexican restaurant becomes the latest to shut its doors in California
‘Do you speak English or Spanish?’
Popular haircut sparks outrage across Texas
'Past a point of no return': Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero still won't stop global warming
Even if human-caused greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced to zero, global temperatures may continue to rise for centuries afterward, according to a scientific study published Thursday.
"The world is already past a point of no return for global warming," the study authors report in the British journal Scientific Reports. The only way to stop the warming, they say, is that "enormous amounts of carbon dioxide have to be extracted from the atmosphere."
The burning of fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas release greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, causing global temperatures to increase and sea levels to rise.
The scientists modeled the effect of greenhouse gas emission reductions on changes in the Earth's climate from 1850 to 2500 and created projections of global temperature and sea level rises.
'Past a point of no return':
...climate change isn't biggest environmental threat
Planting Trees Won’t Stop Climate Change
Tree-planting projects may not be so green
Don't just blame climate change for weather disasters
'Green' policies may actually lead to more pollution
Increased drought forces California to deliver less water to cities
NC declares state of emergency
2 boaters seen on viral video dumping trash overboard
Lawmakers approve use of deadly force against bears
The hotly debated legislation stopped short of calling for a culling of the bear population through hunting.
Lawmakers
...video of children chanting with dead animals emerges
Alligator kills 69-year-old woman
Boy, 6, fatally mauled by dog on Fourth of July
Tootie Pootie is mauled to death by pit bull
Man kicked cat like ‘a football then doused it with gas and lit on fire
Hiker, 47, killed by grizzly bear while out jogging
At least 30 dead dogs found at animal rescue
Animal shelters quickly filling up amid rise in pet abandonments
XL bully dogs to be banned from end of this year
Whether you’re ‘childless’ or ‘childfree’, you shouldn’t have to talk about it
...the question of having children – or not, as it may be – is even more loaded, because it intersects with so many other factors in our lives: health, finances, employment status, gender or sexuality, housing, relationship status, and so on. These are not things you necessarily want to delve into over the course of a casual conversation.
Whether you’re ‘childless’
Women seize #CoolAunt trend to live child-free
'Get Over It'
‘I avoid them whenever possible’
Top 6 Childhood Complaints
Immigration is making the housing crisis worse
Many young people are understandably angry about the lack of affordable housing. They look with envy at parents and grandparents, who had an easier time setting up home.
No one seems ever to ask why we need so many new houses. The late journalist Auberon Waugh used to complain that it was the consequence of more couples getting divorced.
Whenever politicians discuss the question of affordability of homes, or the matter is debated on the BBC, one can be practically certain that no one will dare raise the dreaded 'I' word.
Immigration is making the housing crisis worse
NYC to house 3,000 illegal immigrants in HOTELS
There are currently 48,000 housed in shelter around New York City. Adams described his city as being 'overburdened.'
NYC to house 3,000 illegal immigrants in HOTELS
Hotel owners blast housing homeless alongside guests
Senior Residents Face 30% Rent Increase
California rents are spiking
Illegal crossings soar to nearly TWO MILLION in less than a year
Video shows border agents calmly unlocking gates to let in migrants
Americans are being 'systematically replaced by immigrants'
Indians Celebrating in CA were shoved and called ‘stupid Muslims’
Slur sparked massive fan brawl
DeSantis sends more than 50 Venezuelan migrants to the Obamas, Oprah Winfrey and Larry David properties
Hollywood consumes half the oil from the Amazon rainforest
“The world has failed us,” Correa said in 2013 as he announced a lifting of the moratorium on oil drilling in Yasuní.
The move to drill hundreds of new wells in the national park requires the building of roads and other infrastructure that is likely to accelerate deforestation, environmentalists say. Construction of an initial road inside the park is now less than 1,300 feet from the “no-go” zone designed to protect the uncontacted tribes, according to the report.
Crude reality
Toxic Things Celebrities Do
LA residents say homelessness crisis is city's biggest problem
I WANT GUN FOR PROTECTION
Beverly Hills Hires More Officers And Increases Patrols
Philadelphia now has more murders than NYC and LA and a DOZEN major US cities
Jogging is only good for you if the air is clean
Leo says his new movie is about about science denial and climate change (LOL)
Glute pumping, lip plumping, skin smoothing
'Somebody gift these people some vasectomies
Rattlesnakes everywhere: the odd consequences of California’s drought
Rattlesnakes are everywhere these days, he says – on front porches, in potted plants, and under children’s play equipment. “I am busier than I have ever been. Complaints are coming in from all over the state.”
Rattlesnakes everywhere: the odd consequences of California’s drought
‘It’s like hunting aliens’
Used Condoms in Gay Cruising Areas Are Killing Giant Lizards
Hong Kong declares wild boars fair game
Man 'who had sex with goat' goes on trial and faces 20 years in jail
Crocodile bites man who thought he was plastic
Three-month-old puppy was shot and beheaded
Boy, four, has his entire right arm ripped off by grandmother's 'pit bull
Monkeys Go On Killing Spree By Dropping Pups From Trees
LEOPARD scales a 10ft gate and snatches a helpless dog
Grocery Recalls Are Hitting an All-Time High
So why are we seeing more foods than ever before being recalled? You'll actually be surprised to find out the answer.
Grocery Recalls Are Hitting an All-Time High
Inspection agency finds Listeria in goat cheese
Supply of These 2 Grocery Items Is Dwindling
Frozen cauliflower, broccoli tots recalled
Fully cooked ham, pepperoni products recalled
The idea of having a baby fills me with an absolute, vice-like dread... because I'm a feminist
Throughout my life, ever since my earliest memory, I have never even spared a single, solitary thought on the idea that I was in any way unequal to a man. It never crossed my mind that I would not have my own career, be in any way financially dependent on a wallet with testicles. It never occurred to me that a woman could not run the country (I was born under Thatcher), that a woman could not be a boss (my mum was one) that a woman could not shoot, ride and fight like a man (yes, I may have watched a lot of Calamity Jane and Buffy growing up).
Gender inequality? It was a systemic issue to be toppled, sure, but not a lived reality for me.
And yet now, at 31, I find myself wrestling with a belated and thoroughly unpleasant notion.
We are not equal.
Why? Because I’m in that decade, the one where marriage and babies becomes, not a ‘one day’ concern, but an approaching reality. And yet- should I be lucky enough to have a baby- the idea of having one fills me with an absolute, vicelike dread. Because it may take two to bonk that baby into existence, but after the fun part’s over; it’s all on me.
The idea of having a baby fills me with an absolute, vice-like dread... because I'm a feminist
The Psychology of Denying Overpopulation
Let’s imagine we were giving an award for the worst social problem in the world today. Do you have any nominations?
Did I hear someone say international conflict? Racial prejudice maybe? Environmental destruction anyone? Millions of homeless refugees? Exploitation of women? Turns out there’s one problem that connects all of those, and it’s one you hardly ever hear politicians talk about.
Overpopulation may not be root of all evil, but it is indeed at the root of many of the world’s other miseries.
Just do the math.
The Psychology of Denying Overpopulation