The De-Population Bomb

Having children is an act of hope. America's hyperpartisan fear-mongering has denied our younger generations hope.

I'm 30 and all i do is work and I'm broke. Every woman I talk to is busy working and being broke. This late stage capitalistic society is taking everything from us so much that we can't hardly sleep let alone settle down enough to have children.

50 year carpenter I say no 3 bedroom 2 bath home I’ve built is worth more than 120,000 the lenders are greedy

"The comfort of the rich depends on an abundant supply of the poor" Voltaire

He's just admitting that our entire economy is a pyramid scheme...

Women no longer have a choice, we have to work now because families can’t afford to live on a single income, not even for the basic necessities of life. This means that families are making the choice to have fewer children as the stress involved with 2 working parents bringing up a family is really hard both for the children and for the parents.

So many young people can't afford to have children. Cost of living is prohibitive, and our society is frankly crazy. Why would they have kids?

something to think about, but captive animals dont tend to breed either.

My kid in 20s struggling to pay rent and for college Houses are unaffordable Cars are unaffordable Healthcare is unaffordable Seriously guys…. Maybe they just have common sense not to have kids I don’t have economics degree but I can see the problem Seems odd these experts cannot🤦🏻‍♀️

If there was any discussion of the mainstream media’s role in producing fear and nihilism in our society, I missed it. The media has played a starring role, and people too often overlook its culpability.

People don’t earn enough to even take care of themselves, is it any wonder were not having kids?

29 year old childless woman here, I am married to a man with two of his own sons. I have thought about having a child with him of my own, but the thought is absolutely crippling. We can not afford housing or anything due to child support already, how on earth do I afford to have a child of my own? Everything is so expensive, we can't even begin to think about being able to survive with another mouth to feed..and I'm running out of time.

Add the 40% increase death rate to working age population- as reported by insurance companies in 2022

As a man that got married, for the first time, at 36, and just had a son at 39, children are a luxury good. One that is way to expensive. We will never have another child. No support from family, it’s ridiculous hard for the willing.

People have fewer or no children because they cant afford them. Women want fewer or no children because they have to work full time and rhey are exhausted.

The problem is rooted primarily in economic policy but also current history. I am a baby boomer. I graduated from the Cal State system with no debt and bought my first home when I was 30 having one child by then. I have two grown children. The first thing to occur is 9/11 which equivalent to Pearl Harbor for my son's generation except the war last 20 years. He did two tours in Iraq and one tour in Afghanistan. He married but decided not to have children but does own his home. My daughter graduated from UC right after the financial crash of 2008. She could not find a job for a year or so. She still has approximately $40,000 in student loan debt. She does not own a house. Her partner still needs to do a residency before his income is substantial. Quite simply, my daughter wants children but will not until she is out of debt and can afford a house. The story is similar for my sister's children. My brother-in-law graduated from UC with an engineering degree without debt and was immediately employed by a large corporation. They had their first child and bought their first home by the time he was 25. They had four children. My sister works as a teacher and her entire salary went towards funding college for their daughter and sons. Their daughter started her life before the financial crash of 2008. She owns her own house and has three children. But the sons, like my daughter, graduated after the crash. One is married with one child and a home. The sons are well employed but not married. TARP ultimately protected my cohorts but quantitative easing increased assets like housing to levels of unaffordability. The expectation placed on my children's generation was to use debt as an instrument to climb into the middle class. Even if your parents are relatively affluent as I would say my sister's family household was, the impact of economic policy has disadvantaged her sons in terms of household formation. I agree. Stimulus packages to entice households to have children is not going to work. But speaking as one baby boomer to two other baby boomers, I would say that we lived in relative prosperity and that it is the inequity of wealth in this country that is the ultimate cause.

Three words: late stage capitalism. No one wants to work for poverty wages and get treated like garbage by customers and employers alike. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

The population is slowly dropping due to more women not wanting kids, the younger generation avoids having kids , more men avoid marriage or kids thanks to bias family courts, housing is super expensive, minimum wage is too low, people are unhappy and the government is not helping out with higher taxes and no housing reforms to help the middle class and the poor. Homelessness is on the rise, depression, ...etc. People even prefer death these days as suicide rises.

The real estate argument is baffling. There are so many young people DESPERATE to buy their own home but can't afford it. If the housing prices fall to the level where all those young people can afford it, there won't be any excess housing.

“What happened?” (regarding college attendance plunging) Americans discovered that modern college is nothing more than big business for the same old players in the shadows