Wall Street Journal post on Facebook titled "Americans Are Having Fewer Babies- So Fewere People Get to Be Grandparents".  The subheading reads "Baby boomers are hitting prime grandparenting age.  Only there's a problem: A smaller sdhare of them have grandkids than before and they're not thrilled about it".  There is a link to the article at https://on.wsj.com/4gJS2GW
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

The parts of the world with the most population growth are generally also the poorest. Richer countries have fewer children, and within those countries richer people have fewer children.

I'm not saying that your concerns about your quality of life are invalid or that they aren't the reason you personally don't want children, but they don't explain this general phenomenon.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Kids are a retirement strategy in poorer countries, they are the opposite in richer ones.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Retirement strategy?

    China, India, Syria...

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