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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 55 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Why should I bring a kid into this fucked up world that’s getting more idiocracy by the day

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd sue for wrongful life /s

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

As long as you aren’t one of the 17-40% of miscarriages (depending on your mom’s age).

If you’re a bit more unlucky, and in an adoration ban state, you might take your erstwhile mom out too!

[–] No1@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago

What makes me quite anxious is this:

  • Many people,.using logic and rational thought decide not to have children
  • Many people don't think and just breed by 'accident'

Where does this end? The smarter,.more responsible people voluntarily genocide themselves,. leaving the world to idiots?

If you're a good person, maybe you have a responsibility to have more children, to make the world a better place in the future.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The most annoying thing is all the awful spelling and lack of punctuation I've seen on all the major platforms in recent years. None of today's kids can spell for shit. This is what happens when you're raised by a tablet.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Einstein predicted this too

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Undergoing pregnancy and childbirth, regardless of the baby's gender, just got much more dangerous. In the country that already has the highest maternal mortality rate of all "developed" nations.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Developed nations have healthcare systems. The US does not.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago
[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 months ago

The answer is no it's not safe, but I fear they might not even have a choice.

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago

Go beyond, and beware the common regurgitated talking points, if you care for human rights, a better tomorrow and world liberated from authoritarianism, heirarchal domination, state class and money:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeADcAaeDAg

It is a great injustice that the poor are denied the resources and means to start families. I extend that to non-traditional families, even beyond those that involve birth. Adoption I am told is incredibly difficult. As a trans woman with many chosen family who need to escape hostile situations, we are, as a big queer diaspora, in our own way denied generational wealth and greatly inhibited in the means of persisting our culture.

This is a topic that leftists should not cede ground on, certainly not so easily as is common

[–] protist@mander.xyz 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I really do get the sentiment, but I also think about my grandparents who grew up during the great depression and then fought WWII, or really all the incredibly shitty times to be alive throughout history

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

And there were birth rate dips during those times. WWII only caused a baby boom because it ended and all those soldiers came back horny as hell.

The Great Depression caused a massive drop in Birth rates that took years to recover from, and WWII saw big fluctuations in birth rates until it was over.

This hesitation is normal, people don’t want to have kids when the future is uncertain.

Source

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Where has all that gotten us though? In the interim we've made the world less habitable yet more expensive to live in. I don't want to raise kids just to watch them struggle to make ends meet (as I also struggle to make ends meet)

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's with the whataboutism? Just because our ancestors acted imorrally doesn't make it OK to do the same

[–] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Putting current events in historical context is not even remotely "whataboutism." And it sounds like you're saying your ancestors acted immorally for having children, which may be arguable...

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago

And it sounds like you're saying your ancestors acted immorally for having children

I'm saying they acted immorally if they willingly conceived a child during a World War or the great depression