Regiomontanus
Eastern Orthodox
I could make up a number, how about 27.54387%
lol, I have no idea. My point is that, in developed countries at least, most/many are planned. Your figure of 95% is simply outlandish, IMHO.
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Childless millennials / Gen Z
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I could make up a number, how about 27.54387%
lol, I have no idea. My point is that, in developed countries at least, most/many are planned. Your figure of 95% is simply outlandish, IMHO.
Eh? I understood nothing.
This woman is very self-confident....and she is asking to be loved.
Considering that in China there was a rise of abortions after the one-child-policy...that meant that the Chinese had sex...not with the intention of procreating.
Still waters run deep.
No...because the rich will keep having children.
But the deaths outnumber the births...that's for sure.
amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
well I mean.. It does bother me, that I will be 40 in a couple years without any offspring, but I don't think I'd know how to raise them, and nor could I provide them with much.
I think my job might finally be more secure now, but I'm almost 40.. Successful people who are a little older than me are already grandparents.
I've written my opinions lately on the complicated / simple overpopulation question in other posts around here, and I don't know if I have the energy to add much here.
It is kind of a weird way to end my ancestral line, and my 2 brothers might not have kids either. We may come from very early american settlers from the 1600's, according to one possible read of my ancestry line, possibly having notable direct ancestors in both the british isles before they got here, and some notable ones after they settled here. Well I guess nothing goes on forever
I think my job might finally be more secure now, but I'm almost 40.. Successful people who are a little older than me are already grandparents.
I've written my opinions lately on the complicated / simple overpopulation question in other posts around here, and I don't know if I have the energy to add much here.
It is kind of a weird way to end my ancestral line, and my 2 brothers might not have kids either. We may come from very early american settlers from the 1600's, according to one possible read of my ancestry line, possibly having notable direct ancestors in both the british isles before they got here, and some notable ones after they settled here. Well I guess nothing goes on forever
I find it interesting for some reason watching my parents' family names die. The genetics are still going, but the names... nope.
For my mother's maiden name, there was one brother to carry on the name. Of his three children, only one daughter married. His son just got a vasectomy. That name is done.
My dad had three girls, and a brother that didn't have kids. My sister still has her maiden name, but gave her kids the father's last name. My sister had one daughter that has her maiden name... I wonder if she'll keep it for the reason she's the last one in the young generation to have it. If she changes her name upon marriage, that name is done, too.
As a trans man, I was never going to have biological children. That pains me as I do believe it's important to pass your genes down because that is sacred in my view, but such is life. Eventually I'll become a dad by other means when I can find a spouse. I honestly don't have the patience to raise an infant, anyway, at least not right now. I don't understand the reasons people give to not have kids due to finances. You'll get welfare if you're poor and have kids, so that's not a good excuse, imo. I think it's more the professional lifestyles that have been pushed for millennials and younger people that make it hard for them to have time for a relationship, let alone raising a family. They're either poor on one hand or college educated and obsessed with their careers to the detriment of anything else.
Terrywoodenpic
Oldest Heretic
Most family names continue even if individual branches die out.
About 30 years ago we had a family gathering of the adult members of the family branch originating in Comber Ireland in the 17 century There were about 70 of us attended out of a known couple of hundred or so. It would have more than tripled that if children had attended.
Family names do not die out so easily. However few people know of even a fraction of their living relatives past their own grand parents.
About 30 years ago we had a family gathering of the adult members of the family branch originating in Comber Ireland in the 17 century There were about 70 of us attended out of a known couple of hundred or so. It would have more than tripled that if children had attended.
Family names do not die out so easily. However few people know of even a fraction of their living relatives past their own grand parents.
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
To each his / her own choices.This is a thread to talk about childlessness...in our generations.
The boomers are invited too... to express their view on us.
Like this:
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PS. OK, Boomers
I have 2 kids and are utterly unable to imagine what my life would have been like had I not had these kids.
It's a ridiculous cliché, but when I sit at home and watch them play, fight, sleep,... I feel so fulfilled and overwhelmed with the idea that it is BY FAR the best thing I ever did. Nothing comes close.
Regardless of how I feel now that I'm a dad though...
I also always figured that not having kids is something I would start regretting from age 50-60 onwards.
But I guess it's personal. Just a feeling I always had.
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
98% of statistics posted on internet forums are pulled out of ones behind.
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
So you falsely equate "unplanned" with "unwanted".
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
In my experience, this is not the case at all.
When I look in my social circle to others of my age who don't want children, the actual reason is never about work or time or money.
It's pretty much just one reason: I don't want that responsibility and I want to be free to go party and drink and what-not whenever I want instead of having to change diapers, feed kids and worry about getting them to do their school work.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
My two youngest do not want kids, I don't think. One has been married for ten years with no kids, and one is engaged to a woman who is about five years older than him, so she's already 40 or older. They are both millenials. Also, my youngest brother, who is a Gen Xer, doesn't want kids and doesn't have any.
Tell me the difference.
You must be a wealthy person.
Wealthy people procreate because they can give their kids a nice future.
Honestly I have seen much more parental regret than childless regret around.
My name & genetics mean nothing.
I have the relationships I have because I want them.
My influence will live on....to some extent.
That's enuf for me.
Rigid expectations can doom one to woe.
Be flexible.
I have the relationships I have because I want them.
My influence will live on....to some extent.
That's enuf for me.
Rigid expectations can doom one to woe.
Be flexible.
I think that's the main reason I weathered my kids' disabilities so well.
I see a lot of parents mourn for the child they didn't get. It isn't limited to situations with disabilities, but its pretty common.
So are you saying that atheists make children because they believe that their influence will live on through them?
The capitalistic system has merciless and rigid expectations.
I don't speak for other atheists.So are you saying that atheists make children because they believe that their influence will live on through them?
Ignoring my point, eh.
Capitalism is still better than the fascism &
withering economics that always accompany
socialism / communism.
I think religion also plays a significant role.
There are some Christian denominations that make Christians believe they were the chosen ones (predestination), so they believe God owes them something, like a child, if they are hardly fertile.
In Catholicism I can promise you that when one is sterile, the sentence is: "God has decided so. That you remained childless".