wellwisher
Well-Known Member
This is a thread to talk about childlessness...in our generations.
The boomers are invited too... to express their view on us.
Like this:
View attachment 98184
PS. OK, Boomers
I am part of the baby boomer generation. Our parents were part of the Golden Generation. They had survived a Great Depression and World War 2, and due to the "all hands on deck attitude of the war effort," had also learned to become soldiers in terms of the endurance needed for raising a family. The tragedy of war and how it impacted almost all families, made families closer; life replaces death.
It was also a simpler time with very little need for the welfare state. Families were more extended to grandparents. Housing was much cheaper; GI Bill, allowing almost any family to afford a house. Most women did not have to work, with the pay of just the husband, sufficient to have the American dream; house, family, yard, etc. Neighbors knew each other and all looked out for each reach other's children, since the children played together.
What screwed this all up was Liberalism of the 1960-70's, women's liberation, open relationships, divorce, welfare state, etc. Open, experimental relationships, and divorce caused the price of living to skyrocket, since now the nuclear families needed two households which increase housing demand and price.
The separation of many parents and children, hardened the next generation of children, who was in the middle of this new satellite family. That was not as good, as their parent had had, as children. Mothers now had to work or get on welfare and both parents struggled as demand for housing doubled. The children did not trust, that they would be any different in terms of their family. With the father usually not present, the children got a half adult education; too feminizes.
The push to make males the cultural enemy; cavemen, to justify reverse discrimination, did a lot of harm to the boys, who became more he/she; women's version of a man. Many women do not want children, when they already had a lazy man child. Then there was abortion. Back in my day, if a young guy knocked up a girl, they would do the right thing, by the child, and get married. Often families were not planned but brought together by natural fate. But with abortion, that need to do the right thing, did not lead to families and children, so this natural fate had less of an influence.
