Gen Z & Millennials Can't Afford to Have Kids .....
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Gen z and millennials simply cant afford kids anymore.
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Greed is finally screwing the future. High rent, high groceries, overpriced housing, ridiculous cost of vehicles and insurance, who the hell can afford kids?
Who the hell wants em? 😬
I don't know who couldn't see this coming, they can only squeeze the grapes so much until there's no juice left to be had
That's why I don't tell them my real name.
The ownership class doesn't care if you have kids, they will just import 3rd worlders to make up the difference.
the ownership class doesn't care if you want kids or not, they'll just import more third-worlders
its worse than that, most of us cant even afford a normal life for ourself.
Most breeders rely on govt handouts. They have no shame.
@@monk4everthere was literally a TikTok of a single “mother” in mid maxing the child support they get from each baby daddy, what monsters
@Kevin_40 thats another reason I stay single. It costs too .uch to date these days lol 😆
@@BruceHarris-r7r If she's not paying for your meal, she is not worth your time.
And what's normal?
Usually people who can afford kids dont have them and people who cant afford them have a lot of them.
Unfortunately, that appears to be true. I have one by choice, but I could have afforded to have more.
Fisherian Runaway
Yup just take a look at Africa.
A lot of women outside the US are forced to have children. Whether it be socially, financially, or physically
The government covers the cost for them.
Especially if they are within a demographic
Meanwhile immigrants are having 4-5 kids. Really makes you think what this country will look like in 20 years
A third world SHITHOLE!!
Not a mystery, most women aren't having kids in America, immigration is what's keeping America afloat
Exactly
Millions of Mexicans living off of welfare in Houston, TX
beige
@@rodeleon2875 Beige? 🤨
I bought 2 egg sandwiches and 2 blue berry muffins at some local cafe the other day for me and my wife. Cashier literally said $26. My jaw dropped. I'm buying chickens at this point and making my own bread.
Not without an inspected and permitted/licensed chicken coop you're not. - Uncle Sam
@@asdfbeau LOL
@@sumtoast6447 having chickens is cool, but they’re going to poop on everything just so you know. We’ve spent the last few years raising chickens and I’m ready to be done and just buy them at the grocery store. I want my yard back 😂 yeah you can fence them in but the ones who lay the best eggs & the most frequently are also the ones that can hop over fences. Make sure your chicken wire is over 9 feet.
You can make bread out of chickens🐔.........😮
@@asdfbeauWe told the city inspectors to fuck off. Haven’t heard back yet. 😊
If they want people to have kids, we have to make the basic necessities accessible to everyone. Society needs to collapse as it sits now, tbh we need a complete breakdown of whatever the hell we got going on right now so we can attempt to build a better future.
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While I understand the frustration behind your comment, I think calling for a complete collapse of society isn't the solution. Instead of tearing everything down, we should focus on reforming and improving the systems we already have. There’s no guarantee that a total breakdown would lead to anything better, it could actually cause more suffering, chaos, and instability, especially for those who are already struggling the most.
@@MrMHC I understand the fear that comes from thinking about a “collapse of society”. It may be a fearful thought but we must always remember that empires rise and fall every few hundred years, people change, we evolve, we become better. Hanging on to something that is bad for us and the entire planet (capitalism), does more harm than good.
@@troypropes1182 It sounds like you do not understand anything and that the only knowledge you have comes from books. The country I was born in does not even exist anymore. I have lived through the collapse of a single country and watched people suffer and die. And you think it is good for this to happen to a system that is upheld around the world. I do not advocate for capitalism, I am just against the idea of a total collapse of the system. And do you really believe we got better and evolved in these collapses? The degeneracy that existed in ancient Rome still exist today, the killings in the name of religion and crusades still exist today. The greed and wants that ruled over these empire still exist today. These collapses did not do anything. We might have gotten more comfortable, our technology has definitely evolved, lifespan has improved etc. But the core issues that we have today, survived all these empires that collapsed.
@@MrMHCjust dropping in to remind you that “you dont have it all figured out”
I dont like people enough to own one myself.
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"Own one" lol, yea please don't with that language
Me too. I basically hate people but I like to care for innocent animals.
Same. Also I have this fear my kid would be a huge disappointment on me or society
@@rocketchico.2149 I always thought of a kid being a potential law suit.
Am 33 not having kids, the dating pool is crap. Kids are too expensive, everything is too damn expensive.💀
@@sonrt2107 catholic dating pool 🥰 come on in, the water is fine.
@@hiddenhand6973Catholic, heck no those priest are absolutely disgusting and so is that church for protecting them!
That part, dating pool is full of delusional people that think prayers pay the bills.
Don’t worry they are letting illegals replace you now. Chicago just started giving them homes lmao no 💩
Good, why would you want a kid anyway
Can we take a minute to talk about just how *HOSTILE & TOXIC* this world & society really is? Unfair, unkind, unloving. There is no "LOVE". No real love. People throw that word around constantly, but then they dump you over the most petty things. Here today, gone tomorrow. People don't even know what real love is anymore. ME, ME, ME, I, I, I, BUY, BUY, BUY, all day every day 24/7/365. And everybody worships money not God.
Can't get a job, hustle for the money can't get nowhere if you don't got money, Money is my god I worship money, Money is my Lord. Can't get a job, so you try to have hope, but you can't have hope while stuck in a drought.
People usually worship God when they're out of money but people also worship money' because they have no idea how to control it without obsessing over it so for that you both have a dusty mindset so it's easier for women to generate their own. We're paying the same amount spliting the rent as we are renting a room. So I choose me ;). That's just the way the world works. People will always choose the most beneficial option.
Money and god are one and the same. And you're just now figuring this out?
@@unicorn73212congrats, you can sell your body. Unfortunately, us guys cant🤷
Cant afford children plus the dating scene is a miserable joke
I would almost argue that the dating scene is worse then the difficulty it is to have children.
@@mikeg1032 most definitely
+ Rusty 65 here - 100% Correct.
I have 3 kids and back in my country, we had a phrase: parents, if you want grandkids, buy your kids an apartment. This is so true. Now I have to live in a rental apartment for a number of reasons (war) and my kids are running through tons of stress. There is a chance that this stress will likely avert them from having their own kids at all.
The financial burden that people had to carry in their fertile age is the reason no one wants to have kids. If parents wouldn't be able to ease the situation, there will be no grandkids.
Eastern European?
This is very good advice. One thing though…How do you keep from enabling the adult child?
God bless you and I hope you are able to secure a future for the grand babies. Husband and I made our own way for children by joining the Army but that came with great risk.
Parents be buying homes for their kids in your home country? Why the hell did you come here?
@@fwdcnorac8574 to escape being drafted for a bankers war?
@@hiddenhand6973 thanks. eastern ukraine, correct. It's a long story: ukrainian citizen, russian national, broken backbone... I didn't want to participate at first place, didn't have to for medical reasons, so we're start our own adventure, playing nomads IRL.
@@fwdcnorac8574 well, if they can. Most of the time, they're participating in such a purchase. That's why there are number of cases, where a woman can't take out a property from you, because technically it belongs to your mother.
If everyone had waited until they could "afford" kids, many of us would have never been born.
That's why there's so many poor people in this world.
I have an extenstensial crisis now but sooo true smh
Intellectual braniacs are not having kids meanwhile Clevon is banging the entire trailer park. Literally living in Idiocracy.
That’s cool, would’ve saved me some hospital trips where I got locked up for saying the same thing lmfao
@@monk4everyes
I’m a gen xer and I remember people saying if you can’t afford kids, you shouldn’t have any. I personally, can’t afford them and I don’t want the government paying for something I chose to do.
But you're alright with the government paying for unjustified wars and bailing out corporations ???
But you're okay with the government paying for unjustified wars and corporate bailouts ??? You just don't want them helping you if you have a need. Awesome.
While that’s great, that means the lower IQs are going to do as much and their offspring will care for you in old age 😬😬😬
that's sheep thinking. Gotta ask why you can't afford kids. Is it because you are lazy or is it because there is too much corruption/greed around you.
@@TquanAye nobody can "afford" kids but my son and daughters are priceless and we need more babies right now.
I grew up in a family of 6. Im 48 and 2 of my siblings are over 40 . My little brother is 38. Im the only one married and have a 1 child. The rest are enjoying their single lives.
Wow That's crazy but that is how life has forced some of us to live.
what a sad Christmas gathering 😣
I’m 34, no kids or wife. I’m happy, zero plans to change
Lol. Nobody plans to have kids. Best you can do is try and hope.
Yeah 34 too and the same, it used to bother me in my 20’s until I learned about female nature, and the government.
@@ameliaward7429Are u saying that mrpretty20 just needs to try and hope to have kids when he just said he does not want kids ever? Or did you mean that those who want kids just need to try and hope for them?
47 years old here, about to retire and don’t have kids. I don’t want kids !!! Or get married!!!! Not this dummy!!!
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Starting a family was the most expensive thing I’ve ever done in my life. I let his mom stay home and raise him. Have a nice house and car. We don’t struggle for much except for time. I’ve traded my life to give them a decent life. What’s worse growing up with a father you never get to see because he’s working or being poor and having him around? This grind has killed me. I know have health issues and my wife had to go to work. Those 120 hour work weeks and all the stress finally caught up with me. If I could do it over I would live a lower class life style like we do now to get my health back. I’m now driving the newest car and truck. Sold the motor sport toys that just sat in the garage anyways, because I never had time to enjoy them. Living debt free is the only way to go. Debt is slavery that keeps you grinding for the system !!
Thank you for sharing your story. You’re a good man. I now know for sure I don’t want kids because I can’t afford them and I rather live my own life for myself or help my mom
Get your vitamin D level tested.
If you lived a lower class lifestyle , your wife would of left you. You couldn't win either way.
@@peterprime2934 Yep, just being here on earth means you will get screwed no matter what you do.
Society needs to collapse. The oligarchs fucked up with their insatiable greed.
Or they are just that evil.
The same oligarchs worship the same little star you do. Your’re no different. Do better and find God.
Shut up. @@bleu_chzst924
Says the satanist 😂😂 😂😂
If society collapse they will escape and just collect and consolidate more wealth. And then the average person is left to try to live in the destruction. Look at Ukraine- oligarchy is driving new rolls Royces while their young men get killed in war
When I had my son, it cost us about $250 a month in groceries to feed the 3 of us. Both of us became established in our careers, we both make double what we did 10 years ago, we bought a house in a great neighborhood. We thought we had made it past the hard stuff. Now 13 years later its costing us between $600-700 a month in just groceries still for just 3 people. It's like we never advanced at all. Thats whats wrong.
"Idiocracy" was a gem and predicted the future, Mike Judge is a genius.
Just look at who is running for leader of the free world, we get 2 ridiculous choices. Our lives are a joke.
Trump had the best economy this country ever has. They released covid to bring the populist wave down.
Our lives are jokes
Life IS a joke.
we are living in the sequel to idiocracy today
One gave us a booming economy, 0 new wars, and energy independence. The other is a DEI hire who slept her way through her career and can't do anything but read a teleprompter
I can't afford myself!!!
Who the hell even wants kids? Just passing your suffering to your kids and the cycle continues. Most have kids only because its as strong drive as survival instinct. Nothing else.
I am a concierge for rich people. They are having a lot of kids. So it’s poor and rich people having kids. No one in the middle.
The Golden Girls had it right all them years ago. The way they lived together at their age and stage of life. Thats most of my generations future. 😎🎭✌️
Bringing an innocent child into this world is the cruelest thing you could ever do. This world is nothing but constant pain & suffering. I wouldn't force a child to go through 1/4 of the crap I've been through. And before they died, I made sure my parents knew how stupid they were for dragging me into this shit. 😡 Just because society told them that's what they are supposed to do. Peer pressure. Keeping up with the Joneses. Follow the leader. Mindlessly doing what they see everybody else doing.
Not me! I suffered enough & I don't want to force that on a child. I'm not going to give the government another mindless puppet to torture. And I'm *GEN-X.* There are no winners in this world, we all end up in the same place.
That's the saddest shit I've ever heard. You let your parents die in derision?
I'm SO CLOSE to just selling everything and buying 10 acres and a camper and just sitting by a fire every night for the next 60 years.
That's what I did. It's great.
That gets so old very quick
@@BM_100 to each his own. City mouse, country mouse.
When I was your age, I always said I wanted a kid, but I just can't deal with the quality of women. Even back in my day they were insufferable.
Ya i agree it was a mess for decades. Now its a total disaster.
Feminism destroyed the American women.
I knew from the time I was a teenager that I didn't want kids. Plenty of people having kids who really shouldn't, and I recognized that I was one of the people who shouldn't be a parent, because my heart simply wasn't in it to do so. I applaud those who can do it successfully. It is difficult work. My wife and I have been married for 20 years with no kids (but nieces and nephews on both sides) and are on track to retire much earlier than average. No regrets.
30, childfree, uh we don't have affordable healthcare, daycare is minimum 1600/ month (depending on location), food is expensive, everything else they need is expensive, can't be that surprising people are saying we can't afford kids
Waste of a life
@@NewJack-wr4bq The cope term "childfree" cracks me up too
@@NewJack-wr4bq It’s only waste of a life according to the person brainwashed by american social norms. More like waste of a country 😂. Keep licking corporate greeds boots.
@@edvvardcash6109 Nah, the entire usa is coping hard bro with more things than the term “childfree”. You sound vaccinated and brainwashed by american norms.
@@NewJack-wr4bq Who’s a waste of a life?
Can't afford to go to school, can't fit the work schedule in, have to work to make money to put a roof over my head and feed myself and that takes up 9-5 5 days a week where i would like to also go to school....but can't AFFORD TO in the sense that i just mentioned.
KIDS? HAH! Gosh no i make 16$/hr and while even with a 600$ child tax benefit payment i couldn't do it. i grew up a single child to a single mother in a low income household and while we were not in poverty, it wasn't an ideal well rounded overall healthy lifestyle to be growing up in. There was little to no money for anything outside the basics really. As much as i'd love to be a father one day, it won't happen without her bringing in a second income.
Honestly I'd be a hypocrite if i didn't at least mention the whole having thoughts about whether or not this is a world i would want to bring a child into. It's an absolute freaking mess in every aspect, every regard, you name it. I wish i was born in 50s-70s MAYBE early 80s, anything after that is fucking ridiculous.
Unreal
Unreal
Un desmadre. Unreal
i know!
collab edBassMaster.
Also, idiocracy is not even half as close to reality as 1993 movie DemolitionMan(many famous actors scifi now becoming reality)
This is one of your better ones man. By far, and they're ALL good.
Did not have the kids. Went through a crap divorce in early 20s, remarried and husband was not on the kid train. In late 40s now. I will say the judgement goes to the ladies for not having kids. So you will get judged but the trade off was we have money to do things and travel. I have a small circle of friends who are also childfree. Its great, but people will judge you for it.
I work with a 20 year old who is currently pregnant and has 2 kids with a felon who is in prison as we speak. I respect her for working hard and not aborting any of her kids.
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Raising a family while being stuck in a cramped two-bedroom apartment that feels suffocating with constant nonsense.
Thats what most americans do
You realise most people in human history didn't have their own bedroom.
In a van down by the river might be the only option in some markets.
I grew up in a 2 bedroom apartment. 5 of us in an apartment. My siblings and i all have some trauma from living in that apartment.
I have 3 kids and we live in a 2 bedroom one bath house finished basement big backyard with a trampoline and we all very happy, man all you guys cry about everything you don't need a mansion or to be rich to raise kids just get a job stop being lasy stop crying and go to work that's it 🤣
sad situation we find ourselves in, the people that want them cant afford them, and the ones who don't want them, still cant afford them anyway..
Hubby and I have a house in the country with 2 dogs. We're fulfilled with how things are and don't see a reason to change anything.
This was not an accident what we are experiencing. A few people are very pleased and waited patiently for a long time to see our current unraveling.
Yes. The evil rulers planned for this to happen 100 years ago. They want a small, desperate population that they have complete control over on earth.
I'm 24 and 6'2, make six figs, minimum average looking, work out, have a home, own 3 cars, starting a small machining and electronics business, have a plethora of interesting hobbies, yadda yadda. My last gf was at 19-20 when she left me due to her mental health issues, zero real sustained interest from anyone since even though I've 'made it' by most modern standards. Had a few 'almosts' in terms of dating but they ghosted when I said I wanted to have kids eventually. When my friends told me to use hinge I got 1 like in the last 6 months, and she weighed over twice what I do, so yeah, good luck if you want kids lads.
brutal.
That is just fcing sad, this online dating shit is dystopian
😢😢😢
Maybe marry a woman from overseas
@@kitty1256x Thought about it and if I sold everything I could leave forever, but I love the US for what it was founded for. Not really anywhere else to go on the planet for someone who wants freedom like me. Even though we are losing more every year here.
Bringing an overseas girl over can very easily backfire too. There's 2 types of girls who aren't nuts in the world, those who are resistant to the woke-ism hyper consoomer 'religion' of modern life, and those who are not exposed to it. The former is much rarer, and there's plenty of cases of someone importing a gf/wife and they go crazy eventually the same any other western chick does.
While I would love to have the mythical slightly schizo government hating tomboy GF, I'm not banking on it anytime soon. A man can dream though, lol.
Maybe I am weird but I never had kids thinking I was doing them a favor by not bringing them into this world.
I wouldn't be surprised if the purge becomes a real thing.
Because the juice ain't worth the squeeze .
The problem is the government and the solution definitely not the government or politicians. They made the problem worse!
The problem is two fold. People who are in a position in life to be able to provide a wonderful environment for a child to live in decide they would rather chase buying the nicer BMW than go to a Chevy and have a family. The government also seems to prefer if most people are poor and powerless so they incentivize making bad choices. As you said, the least responsible are breeding like crazy because it costs them nothing and gains them governmental social programs. Getting married and having a child is perhaps the most risky thing a man who has value can do. It is completely screwed up and we will see the long term effects of it in the future and it will not be good. We are still riding on the legacy of the post WW2 buzz cut nerds who did things like build a national highway system, reliable power grid, sewage treatment and sanitation, mass food production with safety, etc.
I know many wealthy men who refuse to marry a foid and have kids. Family is overrated. 😊
I'm 32.....I'm not having kids with the current girlfriend pool in the United States....Then of course, the rent prices, food prices, and other costs of living is making it a nightmare to build a family, yet alone support yourself as a single individual........
Most of us parents and grandparents were in better situations than what our generation (Millennials & Gen Z) are in today. I've got a presumable decade left, I'm not optimistic in finding a wife here in the USA...I'm probably going to have to "Passport Bro" out of the country.
The husband pool in America isn’t looking too good either
Come to Thailand. Im 43 and been here for 5 months
If you do not have much patience and do not genuinely desire to be a loving, responsible, and attentive parent which is a full time job, then do not have kids. Society/media/gov't gives the impression that raising kids is expensive. When they are born and babies they are more expensive, but after they are potty trained and walking they get a little cheaper. Kids do not have to have the latest fashions or new clothes, get clothes for next to nothing at yard sales. They do not need to be rushed to the doctor every time they get a runny nose, let them play in the dirt outside, it will build up their immune systems. Don't buy them techno/electric toys, it robs them of being creative. THey need to play outside with other kids and pets. If the mother and father are not both going to be in the same home with the child for the long haul- then do not have kids. Kids need both of their parents. Teach them how to "help you with the chores," it will instill a willingness to help and teach them to work. Teach them life skills early: how to do laundry, cook, clean, wash dishes, plant a garden, first aid, how to fish/hunt, budgeting, how to service a vehicle, camping skills, how to be a good neighbor, etc. Raise them to be honest and straightforward people with integrity and self confidence.
Negative. Braces are not cheap. Insurance is not cheap. School materials are not cheap. Instruments if they are lucky enough to have school programs are not cheap. You have it quite wrong.
@@Wahinies I didn't have any of those expenses. If you live the way society tells you to, you live more expensive. If you live out of town and homeschool the kids life is cheaper.
I work at a children’s hospital. I see a lot of stupid people having kids. Very few appear to be capable of raising their new kid. A lot of these parents are clueless and it’s so sad to think about the child’s future.
I never pursued the family life because I can barely take care of myself. I've been physically challenged my entire life, no way I could provide a family with a decent quality of life even if I was financially well off. I love my kids enough not to help bring then into this world.
At 65 - I just can't take living with people - I had a number of room-mates before . Now I have a small place of my own. There is no room for even one kid. Blame society on pricing people out of life.
Oh man having kids was a nightmare. She ran off with them and took my company and I pay the state for said asset. Children are owned by the state.
My family’s bloodline don’t deserve to live on. Sad but true.
My 2 youngest sons who are millennials, have 1 child families and can’t afford more then one!!!! And we help them constantly!!!!!
Amen on the trust issues. I feel like people don't even take the time to get to know others these days. Guys will be convinced they like me and I think, they don't even know me, Luckily, since I've been more vocal about sharing being child free, the men have dropped off like flies. I haven't met a child free man yet, but hope to in the future. I'd rather raise cats, dogs and rabbits together. Have pet rabbits, not breed like rabbits.
Husband, kids, and a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment is a blessing. My husband has supported us since the beginning of his career making nothing in 2020 to being very successful now. Obviously if times were different we would love to own/have land. But having a family is what is important if that’s in your heart. You can do it, you just have to want it, be willing to be flexible, patient, and grow over time.
I blame the tiny hat Mafia.
My parents are not leaving me anything, but financial burden. They have so much debt and have yet to pay off their mortgage despite the fact that my mom is retired and dad will retire soon.
That means that when they did, I will be the one dealing with it. I'll have to sell their house to pay off their mortgage.
Idiocracy is hilarious and is so true.
I am someone (a guy) who could have afforded to have multiple kids and I am a smart person to boot. But I chose to have one kid then I had a vasectomy. My daughter was born when I was 28 and I had the vasectomy at 29. The best decision I ever made was my daughter. The 2nd best decision I ever made was ONLY having one. Tons of love without too much stress!! Life has never been too stressful financially or time wise. And my daughter is now a well-adjusted adult who graduated college and has lots of opportunities and will follow her own path!
I basically did the same. Had my Daughter at 26, vasectomy at 35, and now six years later, my daughter is almost 15 and is in high school.
I take her on trips (separated from her mother). My daughter and I have the best time.
I was in a 5 year relationship, but got out of it. Soul sucking.
I BLAME THE TINY HATS
OY VEY! THE GOYIM KNOWS! SHUT IT DOWN!
Tiny Hats?
Tiny hats! Agreed
@@ogvelociraptor205 Yamakas ring a bell...
@@Brian_Barby Mel Gibson was right
I'm single because I am not going to be on child support. And I'm going to enjoy my income until I am 40 years old. I'm an now 26.
I'm 32, 2 kids (4/2), rent/car payment, life's alright. Havent bought a house yet because I dont wanna live in this state anymore: 4 more years!
Dont give up, Jack. Chosen Ones take a long time to find the right one.
I choose not to have children because this world is deeply flawed, and society is riddled with mental illness, violence, and chaos. Bringing a child into this dystopian reality feels selfish, as many people have children out of fear of loneliness or the desire to be cared for in old age. Why should I bring someone into a world where they will face the same suffering and hardships I have endured? The constant wars, societal decay, and uncertain future make it cruel to impose life on another person. Out of genuine love, I refuse to make someone else endure this broken world.
Being child-free is a choice rooted in strong, often personal, convictions. Here are some key viewpoints:
Autonomy and Freedom: Choosing not to have children allows individuals greater control over their time, energy, and life choices. This freedom fosters self-growth, travel, career, and personal fulfillment without the lifelong responsibilities of parenting.
Environmental Impact: Many child-free individuals argue that choosing not to have children is an ethical stance in light of overpopulation and the strain on Earth's resources. It’s seen as a way to reduce one’s ecological footprint and help protect the environment.
Avoiding Suffering: Life is filled with struggles-financial instability, societal pressures, mental health issues, and a world marked by violence and uncertainty. Child-free advocates believe it’s compassionate to spare potential children from experiencing inevitable hardships.
Economic and Lifestyle Choices: Raising children is expensive, often limiting personal aspirations and financial freedom. Choosing to be child-free can provide more opportunities for financial security, investments, and flexibility in lifestyle choices.
Rejecting Societal Expectations: Many child-free people resist the societal narrative that parenthood is a natural or necessary part of life. Instead, they value defining their own purpose outside of traditional roles, advocating for the acceptance of diverse life paths.
This choice is often seen as empowering and rooted in self-awareness, responsibility, and ethical considerations.
Uh, thanks chat gpt?
That is only big cities.. i actually travel
@@ha8536yeah he copypasted that
A good excuse to eliminate your DNA line. It's ethical lmao.
Humanity has always been like this, yet we find a way to survive and continue. Touch grass turn off the news. Can’t get that from ChatGPT!
Selective breeding based on wealth. All those bloodlines lost...
Even when I was a kid I knew that I never wanted kids. Not worth it IMO, especially in this cesspool of a human world. Seems like child abuse & a premiere act of selfishness bringing children into this.
Curious... did you ever ask your parents why they had you? Because basically you are saying your parents were selfish and child abusers if I understand what you are saying.
How the hell are we ever going to fix the problems of the world if we don’t have new generations to contribute? You’re so narrowminded.
@@neimadize We've had literally hundreds of thousands of years & have failed pretty miserably, so don't get your hopes up.
Life is bills .
I always thought a kid was just another potential for a lawsuit. It's the society that we live in. :(
Better watch out Jack, even if you have a kid , the woman that you find that you think will be the one can change her mind at anytime and leave, take the kid and most of your hard earned money. Don't do it.
America. Look at the price of housing, cars, medical. Marriage and kids.??? Are you kidding.??? Today you have to have a well paying job to afford that 1950s life.
They're breeding prolifically in Africa! It's the first world countries that aren't having them 😂
Yeah.. and if you don’t accept immigration. They will invade you , when your geriatric 😉
we are in idiocracy heading for wall-ee i was at wally world and a lot of people were riding scooters.
I remember silently crying to myself when I watched that movie as a kid bc my family didn’t understand that it felt like a warning to me
Got that right, 40 % obesity in the United States.
We are exactly at 30yrs married and still so in love. I hope that for you too Jack.
If the government would pay for my kids then I would have some. But as far as I know the government and society just TAKE my money from me.
Home and family are all what you make it
Prepare for a new nation to be formed from this mess
My children are priceless and glad I had them even if I was young and not ready. I'm excited to help raise grandkids one day.
I'm 59, single for over 9 years and never married.
I had 6 sons from 4 women. Kids are definitely not a reason for marriage.
I knew early I'd never get married.
From 1997 to March of 2022 I paid my child support, $1,600. a month for around 25 years, including health insurance. I worked a full time job and towards the end of my child support I still had to live in my truck. I stepped up to my responsibilities as a father. Each of those women cheated on me, 2 with my best friends. As an Aeronautics Technician contractor I make amazing money and finally my paychecks are 75% mine minus the government extortion (Taxes )
I have no use for a relationship. My 6 sons are all I wanted, BTW my sons are all successful and respectful men now.
Common story, even doctors say this often who are 40 or 50
Your an OG @BruceHarris-r7r stepping up to your responsibilities as a father and raising respectful kids. 👍
I would be ashamed as a guy to have 6 sons from 4 women. Neither one being my wife. But then advertising that is on another level....🤣🤦🏻♀️
From 4 different women though? Come on man..
@@Taylor-pr8uk 3 relationships and a 1 night stand. These things happen. I'd still be with them if they hadn't cheated.
I knew a couple who, when they had their first child they lived in a room with three other roommates.
When the child was born they were homeless because the other roommates didn’t want to have a child in the apartment.
Fortunately this triggered something within both of the parents. Now they live in a high end high rise earning $250k and have 4 kids.
Its priorities. Everything else takes care of itself.
See this is what I was talking about in my last post on your last video. Our "Expectations" are out of wack. If you don't want kids, don't have kids and don't let anyone bully you into it. If you want kids, its expensive and difficult. Its an 18 yr commitment and there are no do overs. Very difficult, lots of work, responsibility, and accountability. Wanting kids should never be a impulsive decision.
Having said that, STOP blaming the economy, lack of money, the gov for not wanting or having kids!! So many excuses to avoid responsibility.
Ask yourself this.. Were your grandparents/great grandparents ready for kids during WWII and the depression? How about the industrial age or the dark ages or the medieval age??? How about the people that were in servitude throughout the history of humanity... were they ready for kids?
"A small 2 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment" was the shit (above average) just 30 yrs ago. Hell, in the early 80's houses were 2 bedroom 1 bath. Ask a family living in Ethiopia, in their hut without electricity or water if they are finically ready for the 4 + kids they have?
Guess what, the poorest nations (nations we call 3rd world countries), have the largest birth rate. BUT... here in the US we are so financially poor that we require a 3 bedroom 2 bath apartment, a career with a six figure income, and at least $200k in savings all before the age of 25 before we consider having kids.
What bullshit. Our expectations are so F'd up. Nothing but excuses and blame. Its the economies fault, its societies fault, its the gov. fault, its the cultures fault, its the boomers fault. I/we never have enough... WAAAGH.
32M with two children and doing well. No bills, no debt, saving money, still buying things. Got money saved for a house, just need to find a place that's not an insanely overpriced shithole. To rock this lifestyle even through the storms of life, you will absolutely need a traditional rock-solid wife/family structure that takes a commitment and selflessness (super rare to find). Be smart with your money, do free things together.
One major hurdle is: the vast majority of modern people are so damn fundamentally broken in every way while disconnected from basic values, that the family structure is unattainable regardless of finances/ financial times. I might have a shitty shed on top of a boulder today, but all the surrounding mansions build on sand will wash away in the storms of life.
No kids. No wife. No debt. No stress. No drama. Happy life. 🎉
Dystopian American Dream
You sound lonely and sad
@@fireboltazAsk my friends. I'm the happiest person they know. 😊
Happy people don't have to brag about how happy they are
@@YouMissedBro Yes we do. I'm tired of depressed people.
I was afraid if I had a kid he would be on national TV with my last name about the latest mass shooting. :(
Im an elder Gen X. I saw the writing on the wall a long time ago. So glad that I don't have kids, I didnt see the point.
Feel sorry for you. Also Gen x and have sons and would never not the point in having them.
@@GrzegorzDurdaI feel sorry for you. Only weirdos have kids.
Well then hopefully you don't reach the age of 90 because it will suck..
Loneliness sucks
@@monk4ever You sound like an incel
@@monk4ever Lol then look the weirdos that had you lol.
Honestly, I have no idea how people have kids. I'm working. When I'm not working I'm preparing to do more work. This is my life now, back in the day the work part was exchanged for heavy parties. Neither lifestyle works for properly raising a child. And then there's the MONEY. Over $500 per week for childcare? Huh?
A lot of families help each other in raising generations of kids. Mom dad grandma grandpa etc
Old money is how
@@finalboss7956This is 2024, not 1924.
“I just want to keep my house clean,” “Well we just want to keep our house.” Lmao
I was laughing so hard after you shake that chair. Couldn't even pay attention for the next 2 minutes
I’ve made a FUCK ton of mistakes in my life, having kids wasn’t one of them! Allelujah!!!! 🙏
I'm 44, one kid, she's 5. Single parent now. Have her 50%. Life is good :)
I also live in Norway and was never married. Daycare is basically free and I bought a home here too :)
@@TheoinNorway80 wish I lived in Norway, it sure seems better than south Philadelphia.
First time Dad at 37, Mom 35 - always wanted to create a path forward to a family and not create a path forward as a reaction to starting a family. It's the most amazing experience of my life.
2024... America fuckin sucks... Period
Did you notice everyone is wearing Crocs in the movie Idiocracy?
If i could get a two bedroom i could at least make room for my first born but naw stuck living in my childhood bedroom.
I could even turn the living room into a studio so two kids can have a room. But naw building an attainable two bedroom is apparently asking too much.
I'm in the UK, on a mortgage they usually lend to a ratio of 4.5 your salary. The average house is £282,000. You pretty much need a 5% minimum deposit which in this case is £14,100 which means I would need a salary of £59,533. The average pushes the wages up as it includes millionaires/billionaires and that salary is £34,963
How to have kids 101: Welfare.
Dude upstairs got 4 kids and he the only one working. He got an eviction notice on his door. 😢
As a millennial, I never wanted kids then and I still don't want any. It has nothing to do with money or my career I just don't want kids. I decided a long time ago and I will not change my mind. No one should be bullied let alone berated into having a child they don't want.
No one is bullying you BUT when a person uses excuses like they can't afford kids, that is a cop out. These YOUNGER people act like no one who came before them ever had problems. It baffles me how naive and uninformed young people are. Here is something funny. In the last 20 years young people have insisted on making up names for things that have been around forever. But I guess it was to be expected. Millenials and Gen Z are the first generations to have their entire life documented in photos and video.
I am Gen X!!
Here is one for you, I just felt the need to add.
Quiet quitting. I mean what the blank. I knew people who were "quiet quitting" when millenials or Gen Z were in diapers. But leave it to young people to think they were the first to discover it.
Same, I knew since I was 10 years old that I never wanted children.
Best decision I made for myself.
@savagesweetheart90 Again, it begs the question, why? Did you have a bad childhood? Were your parents there for you, did they love you? Ten years old is pretty young to decide you don't ever want kids.
@@GAFB1122 when family and friends bully someone into submission because "having children is normalized" then you'll understand why someone doesn't want kids PERIOD
Having Kids are for the rich. The have ensured this. The rest of dregs are no longer needed, low pay labor is being provided from the flooding of the border
Only if you think living in society is your only option in life
So only the dumb and psychos survive. Feudalism is making a comeback.
I was making 9 dollars an hour when my son was born in 2009. Could afford rent and groceries on that back then. Couldn't imagine making a low wage and having kids today now that everything is 10x more expensive.
Losing 50% to 75% of your assets and money is honestly sad. Honestly, it would destroy anyone's life regardless of gender.
Divorce is sad. But if two people come into a marriage with nothing THEN everything they built they built together. Furthermore, if it is agreed that one spouse will stay at home which will negatively affect that spouse's earning potential should a divorce happen, then that spouse needs to be properly compensated. DID YOU NOTICE I am not attaching man or woman to that, and I am just using the word spouse.
I'm on my 9th pregnancy, 6th baby and I'm 36 a millenial.... I also live in hawaii and it's very common to have a large family here. Children are blessings but make sure you're a strong person, this is not for the weak lol. I've heard so many tourist boomers comment on how brave I am for having a huge family. They also tell me how they wish they had had more kids and that I'm more rich than most. I believe them.
I want to have a child but no way in this economy 😢
Please don't give up !!! That's what they want you to do !! Find someone good and have children!!! You will find a way to make it work I promise !!! The people who should be having children are people like you who are economically conscious!!!!! Please believe me , I was just like you and i decided it was now or never and it was best choice of my life even when things are hard . But you find you push yourself and even think clearer and better when the decision is made .
@@ihunt12903No! No more kids!
@@monk4everShut up!
Marriage is like milk; is Good, but no for everybody. Stay cool !
It's what plants crave
Historically all families were started in small apartments/houses , and they had like 4+ kids.