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Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report (www.theguardian.com)
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As right-wing governments seek to blame a rejection of parenthood, a survey reveals a lack of choice, not desire, stops people having the families they want

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250610132514/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/10/un-population-fund-unfpa-report-reasons-falling-global-fertility

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Factors such as the high cost of parenthood, job insecurity, expensive housing, concerns over the state of the world and the lack of a suitable partner stop people having the families they want, rather than any desire not to have children, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), said.

(...)and the answer lies in responding to what people say they need: paid family leave, affordable fertility care and supportive partners.”

Saved you a click

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And to immediately reply to my own post:

I really really don't want to raise kids, and this century is pretty much the first one where that's actually an option.

I have a great husband, a suitable house, a good job (and so does he). But since we don't want to spend two decades raising children, we chose not to have them. Because that's an option. We don't need children as a labor force for subsistence farming, we don't get kids as a result of recreational sex and we don't need children to provide for us in old age. That's entirely new, none of those things were true a hundred years ago, and many still aren't true in other parts of the world.

So yeah, even people who are super privileged like us, might still not have kids, because we think having kids sucks.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

So another study that found out what the majority already considered obvious, except for some old fashioned extreme religious minorities