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I think a big reason millennials seem less interested in having kids that I don't see discussed a lot: Boomers seemed to hate marriage and parenthood (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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From a pretty early age I decided I didn't want to get married or have kids cuz both my parents seemed utterly miserable. For a long time I found it weird anyone wanted to do it at all, why would you want to be trapped with someone you hate who you get into screaming arguments all the time?

And it's not just me, you see a lot of jokes online about people like playing that one scene from Marriage Story while playing old N64 games for nostalgia.

I think the experience of seeing our own parents be so miserable maybe soured a lot of us on starting families.

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[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

this is a really weird, flattening PoV to take

i feel like i've seen enough women here lamenting their lack of uterus to say that this doesn't reflect reality at all?

[-] bunnossin@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

100-com I want to, but I can't, and even if I could I couldn't bear to bring someone into a world like this.

[-] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

i feel like i've seen enough women here lamenting their lack of uterus to say that this doesn't reflect reality at all?

I know there's trans women who get extremely dysphoric about this, but i gotta be honest here, i'm glad i don't have a uterus. Being a mother sounds like a nightmare and it creeps me the fuck out how defensive people get about this.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

i mean it's fine and good to be glad you don't have something you don't want (i'd personally rather get stabbed once a month than deal with periods) but it does appeal to other people and they're not all men looking to dip out on the parenting

kinda makes sense that people get defensive when you characterize it that way ngl