Gen Z, millennials speak out on deciding not to have children

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Student debt. The climate crisis. Low salaries. Members of the Gen Z and millennial generations cite these as reasons they don't want children.

Millions of American families are coping with the rising costs as a new report said it now costs about $300,000 to raise a child.At 24, El Johnson has made up her mind that she won't bear children, though she and her girlfriend haven't ruled out adoption.

Other women interviewed also cited climate change, along with overwhelming student debt coupled with inflation, as reasons they'll never be parents. Some younger men, too, are opting out and more are seeking vasectomies.The U.S. birth rate fell 4% in 2020, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years, according to a government report. The government noted a 1% uptick in U.S.

When Kyah's IUD expires, Walter said he'll consider a vasectomy, a procedure that went on the rise among men under 30 during the pandemic. "Now with increased wildfires, droughts, heat waves, all of a sudden it is becoming real that, OK, this is happening during my time, and what is this going to look like during the time that my children are alive?" she said.

"There is a lot of fear around having children who would be worse off than they viewed themselves during their childhoods," Davidson said.

 

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You are showing two lesbians. They can’t have children

Better for humanity that they don't want to leave the comfort zone anyway🥱

They are children

Thank GOD some good news today

Kind of hard to have kids when the one who’s supposed to carry the baby has a penis

….sky high housing costs, high fuel costs, insane tuition, mass illegal immigration, 30,000,000,000+ debt, record inflation. Yup the future is rosy, isn’t it. BTW any“ green “ actions US does, doesn’t matter if countries like China, India etc. don’t do anything. They aren’t..

Good less pppl for the free shit give-aways from the Democrats

Lol…maybe the green hair says more about the reason. Mental illness, news paranoia brought on by fake news networks

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