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dankmemeuniversity:

And a not insignificant number of millenials are unsure if having children is even ethical, given the climate change situation. We’re afraid enough for our own futures, there’s an attitude among many of us that it would be unfair to bring a child into this situation.

And unlike previous generations, a lot of us have been able to realise that having children should be an opt-in process, not an inevitability that we’re all stuck with, and unsurprisingly a lot more people are realising that they are not invested enough in the idea of having kids to make such a huge irreversible commitment. Which is a good thing. Myths like ‘it’s different when it’s your own’ and ‘nobody regrets having children’ are responsible for a lot of misery and deserve to die.

Childcare costs as much as college. How the fuck can anyone afford to have a baby now and still work?

Ever notice how the “have more babies, we need to maintain the population!” people and “don’t let in immigrants, we don’t want a higher population!” people are the same people? Most immigrants are young, or tagging along with young families. This is an easily solvable problem.

Well, that happened in Germany when immigrants entered the country, and ever since, the far-right have been crying, “our culture is being exchanged for them D:”. They advertised with slogans that pretty much suggested, “Germans, go fuck now!”, sounding even more like cave-men than in this translation (I also forgot the exact phrasing, fortunately)

Also,  ‘nobody regrets having children’, hell, I do regret that my parents decided to have children, so… 

Tangent for the German stuff: The right wing AfD actually has paragraphs in their programm that their goal is both a smaller population in Germany and a higher birth rate.