Generation Z and After

[SalixIncendium]

Did you spawn any offspring from 1997 to the present? Do you plan on doing so in the future?

Knowing what you know now, how do you feel about that decision? How secure are you about their future?

 

[JustGeorge]

Honestly, the one child I had during that time period, I worry a lot for, but more so due to personal issues he has, and less on 'outside' problems.

The other two were after 2012. Does that mean they'll be okay?

 

[bobhikes]

Did you spawn any offspring between 1997 and 2012?

Knowing what you know now, how do you feel about that decision? How secure are you about their future?

Don't understand the question, I wanted kids for as long as I can remember got married and had 2 boys(2000 and 2005). I am happy that I have them and hopefully taught them well enough that they will be happy for most of there life.

Worldly problems come and go. I had uncles forced to serve in wars. My grandfather got Black Lung disease from working in the mines. All my Grandparents made it through the depression. This world today is not worse.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

For obvious reasons (to most members), I've not sired any children. But my best friend had a son in 2012 and a daughter in 2016, and I have to confess I absolutely adore them both. (This was a total surprise to me, because all of my life I have disliked children, which I attribute to the horror of my childhood. I'm hoping this means that I've finally, at 72, grown up. )

But I confess it freely, because I love them as I do, I am terrified for them in the world they will inhabit and I will never see. Even though I'm not family, I want only the best for them, and I don't know what "the best" can be. As a sort of ersatz "uncle" (and by the way, the kids really like me, too), I take immense joy in helping quietly, in my own way, in their growing up. They are both incredibly intelligent (their dad has an IQ of 160, his wife of 155, and I think they're going to surpass both), so I work hard to find gifts that work towards growing their intelligence. Books, toys that involve thinking and logic (the best, by the way, is one called "Turing Tumble").

Still, one must have hope, if that's all that one can do.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Did you spawn any offspring between 1997 and 2012?
Knowing what you know now, how do you feel about that decision? How secure are you about their future?

Could have, but by that time, my machine was not in good working order.
As for my grandchildren, I wish them the best to able to manage their circumstances.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Generation stuff is hardly better than astrology.
Each child is each child. We all share in current struggles, and live in the same world. Some have more tomorrows than others still to come, but the children born today are looking at largely what will be the same world as the ages mentioned in the op, who say the same world as those born iver the past 100 or so years.

 

[SomeRandom]

My friend had her Bub a couple years ago.
Honesty I’m more concerned where she will land in nerd fandoms more than anything else.
(I shall teach her the “proper” ranking of all the Batman versions, for example.)

 

[danieldemol]

Did you spawn any offspring between 1997 and 2012?

Knowing what you know now, how do you feel about that decision? How secure are you about their future?

I had a daughter born in that time period.

I'm cautiously optimistic that they will be able to meet the challenges they inherit provided we exercise due care for the future

 

[Secret Chief]

To the best of my knowledge I've not been involved in any spawning.

Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children – study

 

[SalixIncendium]

The other two were after 2012. Does that mean they'll be okay?

Good point. I probably could have worded to OP better. I suppose I was meaning Gen Z and after. I'll go back and fix it.

 

[ChristineM]

Did you spawn any offspring from 1997 to the present? Do you plan on doing so in the future?

Knowing what you know now, how do you feel about that decision? How secure are you about their future?

Triplets, one of each...

Sorry, had to put in my dads old joke.

I'll start again.
Twins in 2006, really one of each and a girl in 2011.

More in the future? For reasons i won't go in to we started our family late, now I'm 50, so i am thinking not.

The decision for the twins was meticulously planned, the youngest was something of shock.

We have done all we can to ensure their future is at least adequate, we try to teach them about life and how t cope with it. Hopefully the political situation around the western world will begin to swing away from its recent direction, by the time they are ready to fly the nest.

We do what we can now, their lives in the future are up to them to work out

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

No, I'm not bringing any children into this world. I may adopt an older child later. But I don't have the patience for a baby or young child. I'd be in jail for neglect, honestly. Lol.