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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
Gender reveal parties are harmful in so many ways – why do we treat them as quirky?
Gender reveal parties are a form of domestic terrorism
One dead grandmother-to-be. A downed plane. An incinerated car. Several terrifying explosions. An altercation at Applebee’s. A massive wildfire that burned 47,000 acres of Arizona forest and resulted in an estimated $8m worth of damage.
All that’s just a small snapshot of the manslaughter and mayhem unleashed by gender reveal parties over the last couple of years. And that’s before you factor in the latest nightmare ignited by the terrible trend: the El Dorado fire in California. The fire, which was caused by a “smoke-generating pyrotechnic device” set off at a gender reveal party, has burned more than 13,000 acres of forest so far and prompted the evacuation of 3,000 residents.
It’s worth pausing here for a moment to fully absorb the fact that, as well as resulting in a woman’s death, gender reveal parties have destroyed at least 60,000 acres of land in the last three years. (To put this in perspective, the area of Manhattan is around 14,600 acres.) We all know that the police are fond of a bit of profiling; based on these statistics alone they ought to be implementing stop-and-frisk tactics on all heterosexual couples who come within five miles of a heavily wooded area. If the woman’s got a baby bump and the man’s got a dad bod then law enforcement should search them for explosives, stat.
Gender reveal parties are harmful in so many ways – why do we treat them as quirky?
Flurry of evacuations after Northern California wildfire explodes in size
'Toxic femininity' is not just fake-tanned bullies on Love Island
ManKind Initiative, a domestic violence charity, has called on the programme’s producers to ensure male contestants were treated as they would female islanders. But the truth is that the entire set-up of Love Island is toxically feminine, with covert power games cloaked under smiles and ‘support’. Watching Love Island is like being trapped in the subconscious of a sixth-former from the movie Mean Girls, whose characters are constantly engaged in psychological warfare with each other.
Women are still as competitive as men. It’s just that women don’t (usually) compete directly. Instead, a more typical female strategy is to cut down a rival by insisting on ‘equality’, or get friends to gang up on her.
'Toxic femininity'
'It is disrespectful and insults women'
Girl got mad because parents bought her a Tesla instead of a Mercedes-Benz
Jennifer Gries lied about rapes to get revenge on coworker
Jenna Ortega’s rude comments should kill her career
Johnny Depp Had a Major Downfall in His Career Due to His Ex-Wife
Youth shelter employee arrested, more victims identified in sexual assault, cover-up
Mom of YouTube star is sued for $22m by 11 kids
Sentenced to 21 years for poisoning her friend with laced cheesecake
Accused stepson killer’s...
Judge Orders Middle School To Let Trans Use Boys Restroom
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Friday ordering a central Indiana middle school to allow a transgender student to have access to the boys restroom.
Judge Orders Middle School To Let Trans Use Boys Restroom
Trans kids barred from using the right bathroom at school
Lia Thomas banned
Female students were told to strip naked for trans rapist
Trans prisoner who stalked 13-year-old girl 'to be moved from men's to women's jail'
Should trans prisoners be sent to women’s or men’s prisons?
Meta's oversight board calls for more inclusive adult nudity policy
The board, which is funded by Meta but operates independently, said in a ruling that the company's adult nudity policy is based on a binary view of gender, making it unclear how the rules apply to intersex, non-binary and transgender people.
Meta's oversight board
Facebook, Instagram will lift ban on bare breasts — but only for trans
NY library hosts 'drag camp' for kids age 11 and up
A publicly funded library in upstate New York is being assailed for hosting a "drag camp" for children as young as 11 years old to take on a drag persona and perform at a pride drag show.
NY library hosts 'drag camp' for kids age 11 and up
Ohio passes bill requiring genital inspections for school
Kids Being Trained To Pay For Drag Queens
Graduation encourages only relationships between men, women
BANNING drag shows in the presence of minors
Drag Queen Story Hour Canceled
Mandatory 'Drag Queen 101' class for K-12 students
Sexually-Explicit 'All Ages' Drag Show
Spanking Can Be an Appropriate Form of Child Discipline
Fathers telling sons to 'take care of your mother' is misogynistic. It makes women look weak
Why you're selfish if you order spaghetti
Here's How Often Men and Women Really Think About Sex
Why males pack a powerful punch
Bill Murray Speaks Out After Complaint
Man wanted for aggravated assault of young daughter
Johns Hopkins child sex abuse center hires trans professor
'Worst Cooks In America Child Killer'
'whiteness' is a disease'
A spanking is more legal than a slap because nobody walks around with a diaper on their face. 14-May-2022
The reason "they" advise you not to spank a kid is because they might get horny for you. 15-Apr-2022
The best way not to be regarded as a mother is not to become one. 22-Dec-2021
Size DOES matter!
Reducing the depth of penetration by an inch led to a statistically meaningful drop in the amount of pleasure experienced.
'The longer the erect penis, the less likely the rings had an impact on sexual pleasure,' they write.
Size DOES matter!
My Husband Is Suddenly Very “Well Endowed”
Teen gets USB cable stuck in penis...
Ladies do prefer men with hair...
Julian Morris Comes Out
'everyone knows it's wrong'
How it's fashionable in modern Britain to believe there's no difference between men and women
Imagine a group of time travellers transported from the 1950s to today. The way the world has changed would astonish them.
They would marvel at the technological innovations which have transformed our lives. And they would be amazed by the material prosperity enjoyed by so many.
But they would also be surprised at how much of the old moral framework they knew had disappeared.
For example, they would be startled to learn of the soaring divorce rate and the massive increase in every kind of crime.
They might also be taken aback to find out how obsessed with sex Western society has become.
But of all the changes, nothing would puzzle them more than the preoccupation with what is now known as ‘gender’.
On discovering it was now fashionable to believe that, psychologically and biologically, there is no difference between men and women, our time travellers would stare in open-mouthed disbelief.
Although they would see males and females looking as different from each other as ever – with most people pushing baby buggies being recognisably female and most construction workers recognisably male – were they really to believe these differences were not rooted in nature, but were all just a ‘social construct’, the result of ‘gender stereotyping’?
How it's fashionable...