this is a good thing , i persum , less unwanted teen pregnancies and i persum more educated teenagers
Great.
Now let’s put the same effort into making giving birth attractive to women over 25.
Education and contraception are wonderful things
Better education, better access to contraceptives, horrific cost of livings, more gays than ever, Irish lads either have great pull out game/ejaculate sand, and women have higher standards.
These are facts mixed with sarcasm.
Great news
I’ve a family member who works with underprivileged teens and has done for about 15 or so years. When they started, it was essentially all teen pregnancies and now they haven’t had one teen parent in 3 or 4 years. It’s all drugs now.
But it really is amazing to see the change, I had about 3 girls in my year who had babies before we even did the Leaving, which was just over 10 years ago. My brother is about to do his leaving and he doesn’t know a single person his age who has a kid.
Can only benefit society, hopefully.
*”Next on RTE 1, how to have a baby in shared accommodation, see Eoin and Deirdre’s journey in a shared apartment in Ringsend, while they try and raise their child, with a cost of living crisis and all with the stresses of being new parents”*
Fucking good
Obviously, who wants to have a child when you live with your parents?
Good. Women aren’t baby making machines. Stats like these are good.
This is a good thing, nobody should have kids while still in school!
This is literally a very good thing.
I think this is one of the reasons our gov is encouraging immigration and taking in so many asylum seekers. We are facing a demographic crisis as people increasingly choose not to have children. This is unacceptable from the govs point of view as they need a constant flow of young workers paying taxes in order to secure older people’s pensions. It’s the only reason that makes sense when you see the massive amounts of taxpayer money they are willing to invest in IPAS as well as the willingness to ignore people’s protests (unless you’re in d4)
My first is turning 13 and I was the first of my friend group to have a kid. I’d just turned 30. Everyone else was a few years older and a couple were 40+ having their first.
That’s great news. There’s plenty of time to have kids and getting some life experience and education/work before having one is better for the parent and child.
This is a good thing! I was 24 having my only kid and, for me, it worked out fine. I’ve friends who are in their late 30’s now starting to have kids, and personally I would find that exhausting, but with the way things are, I completely understand why they needed to wait.
When I was in 5th or 6th year in my school there was 4 or 5 girls who had babies in quick succession. Looking back it now and knowing what happened in previous generations its actually pretty satisfying how it was handled. Nobody was made feel shame, the girls came into school as normal while pregnant until they couldn’t do it anymore. Don’t get me wrong as 16/17 year old boys, my friends and I would have made immature jokes amongst ourselves about it but I’m pretty sure if we had done anything more serious than that we would have been in serious trouble. The other thing is that most of the families helped out so the mothers in question could go further into education if they wanted.
Only problem is now these children are grown and they are a reminder how long it’s been since I finished school.
This makes sense brother, what were you doing at that age? Starting a career or going to college… Broadly levels of education and the number of people who pursue third level education. has also vastly increased in this time.
Opportunities for travel and other worldly experiences have increased too, really who wants to be a parent before they have enjoyed some of their best years as a young, free adult.
Obviously we should be worried about birth rates, but virtually every developed society in the world has seen similar effects. Is it sustainable? Not unless we change something, I think if proper housing and such were more available we would be in a better position to prevent a population drop in the future.
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this is a good thing , i persum , less unwanted teen pregnancies and i persum more educated teenagers
Great.
Now let’s put the same effort into making giving birth attractive to women over 25.
Education and contraception are wonderful things
Better education, better access to contraceptives, horrific cost of livings, more gays than ever, Irish lads either have great pull out game/ejaculate sand, and women have higher standards.
These are facts mixed with sarcasm.
Great news
I’ve a family member who works with underprivileged teens and has done for about 15 or so years. When they started, it was essentially all teen pregnancies and now they haven’t had one teen parent in 3 or 4 years. It’s all drugs now.
But it really is amazing to see the change, I had about 3 girls in my year who had babies before we even did the Leaving, which was just over 10 years ago. My brother is about to do his leaving and he doesn’t know a single person his age who has a kid.
Can only benefit society, hopefully.
*”Next on RTE 1, how to have a baby in shared accommodation, see Eoin and Deirdre’s journey in a shared apartment in Ringsend, while they try and raise their child, with a cost of living crisis and all with the stresses of being new parents”*
Fucking good
Obviously, who wants to have a child when you live with your parents?
Good. Women aren’t baby making machines. Stats like these are good.
This is a good thing, nobody should have kids while still in school!
This is literally a very good thing.
I think this is one of the reasons our gov is encouraging immigration and taking in so many asylum seekers. We are facing a demographic crisis as people increasingly choose not to have children. This is unacceptable from the govs point of view as they need a constant flow of young workers paying taxes in order to secure older people’s pensions. It’s the only reason that makes sense when you see the massive amounts of taxpayer money they are willing to invest in IPAS as well as the willingness to ignore people’s protests (unless you’re in d4)
My first is turning 13 and I was the first of my friend group to have a kid. I’d just turned 30. Everyone else was a few years older and a couple were 40+ having their first.
That’s great news. There’s plenty of time to have kids and getting some life experience and education/work before having one is better for the parent and child.
This is a good thing! I was 24 having my only kid and, for me, it worked out fine. I’ve friends who are in their late 30’s now starting to have kids, and personally I would find that exhausting, but with the way things are, I completely understand why they needed to wait.
When I was in 5th or 6th year in my school there was 4 or 5 girls who had babies in quick succession. Looking back it now and knowing what happened in previous generations its actually pretty satisfying how it was handled. Nobody was made feel shame, the girls came into school as normal while pregnant until they couldn’t do it anymore. Don’t get me wrong as 16/17 year old boys, my friends and I would have made immature jokes amongst ourselves about it but I’m pretty sure if we had done anything more serious than that we would have been in serious trouble. The other thing is that most of the families helped out so the mothers in question could go further into education if they wanted.
Only problem is now these children are grown and they are a reminder how long it’s been since I finished school.
This makes sense brother, what were you doing at that age? Starting a career or going to college… Broadly levels of education and the number of people who pursue third level education. has also vastly increased in this time.
Opportunities for travel and other worldly experiences have increased too, really who wants to be a parent before they have enjoyed some of their best years as a young, free adult.
Obviously we should be worried about birth rates, but virtually every developed society in the world has seen similar effects. Is it sustainable? Not unless we change something, I think if proper housing and such were more available we would be in a better position to prevent a population drop in the future.
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