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"So the decision to avoid having children may amount to a kind of performance anxiety in the face of intense expectations and weak governmental and social support". (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://twitter.com/juutsid/status/1720518455458214044

tl;dr: millennials are afraid of failure.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

People are poor but if you are poor and have kids there is a huge stigma attached to it if you were raised middle and upper middle class.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this is a huge part of it. Boomers were able to give their kids good lives. Millennial can't even give their kids the same standard they have. People want to give their kids a better life than they had, but this is impossible without a house and a yard and extra money for game consoles and extracurricular and playmates and all the shit that was taken for granted in a 90s childhood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nail on the head. Would my hypothetical kids be fine without the treats I was given as a child? Probably.

Would it be exhausting to justify internally, explain to people, and face judgement from family? Definitely.