With effective birth control, the choice is firmly in our own hands (no accidents so far),but that makes it feel like an impossible choice that simply doesn’t make logical sense.
I get that some people feel baby-mad, but plenty of us stay fairly indifferent and it really doesn’t make sense.
Out in the sticks where I grew up most people had a parent at home or part-time.
As an adult, I have no idea how people commute 1 hour, work 9-6 pm like me and my partner do and somehow have a child that is being cared for. Does our day now factor in shuffles to and form child minders that cost one of our paychecks? What about with schools where junior infants often start finish at 2pm? Are we paying another person to pick them up from school?
There basically no framework on how you go from the ‘young professional couple’ every Dublin landlord expects to rent to, to the ‘Young family’ with school aged kids. The only obvious solution is one parent (nearly always Mum) giving up on their career while the other has all the pressure of supporting the whole family. If you don’t make enough to either quit working, or pay for child care your kind of screwed,
What does the title mean?
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#notallmillenials
A children?? Why am I picturing a toddler with two head.
what language is this?
Living conditions were significantly worse 50 years ago when people were having more children.
In almost every country birth rates drop as people becom richer not the other way around. The reasons they drop is birth control, education, people getting married at older ages and two parents working not a lack of income or struggling economy.
You forgot to mention the pandemic
Being a D.I.N.K is the way forward as a millennial. The world is too messed up to bring more kids into it.
Also government:
Well lets just mass immigrate people and bring in refugees.
millenials:
But there are no more homes, where are you going to house them, the street?
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With effective birth control, the choice is firmly in our own hands (no accidents so far),but that makes it feel like an impossible choice that simply doesn’t make logical sense.
I get that some people feel baby-mad, but plenty of us stay fairly indifferent and it really doesn’t make sense.
Out in the sticks where I grew up most people had a parent at home or part-time.
As an adult, I have no idea how people commute 1 hour, work 9-6 pm like me and my partner do and somehow have a child that is being cared for. Does our day now factor in shuffles to and form child minders that cost one of our paychecks? What about with schools where junior infants often start finish at 2pm? Are we paying another person to pick them up from school?
There basically no framework on how you go from the ‘young professional couple’ every Dublin landlord expects to rent to, to the ‘Young family’ with school aged kids. The only obvious solution is one parent (nearly always Mum) giving up on their career while the other has all the pressure of supporting the whole family. If you don’t make enough to either quit working, or pay for child care your kind of screwed,
What does the title mean?
Bot
#notallmillenials
A children?? Why am I picturing a toddler with two head.
what language is this?
Living conditions were significantly worse 50 years ago when people were having more children.
In almost every country birth rates drop as people becom richer not the other way around. The reasons they drop is birth control, education, people getting married at older ages and two parents working not a lack of income or struggling economy.
You forgot to mention the pandemic
Being a D.I.N.K is the way forward as a millennial. The world is too messed up to bring more kids into it.
Also government:
Well lets just mass immigrate people and bring in refugees.
millenials:
But there are no more homes, where are you going to house them, the street?
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government:
:O