No one wants to have kids anymore

Re:No one wants to have kids anymore by lotsofpulp on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @11:25AM (#33882600)

I would guess money is a frequent issue, plus visa and other family obligations such as other siblings great grandparents. Health issues too since grandparents are older than in previous times.

None of those qualify as dysfunction in my book.

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Re:No one wants to have kids anymore by rglullis on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:52PM (#33886865)

Apologies in the advance for the (slight) moving of the goal posts, but to me the problems you mention do point out to very dysfunctional aspects of modern life and the common family structures:

- "Older grandparents" is a sign that people are waiting too much to have their own kids.

- "Other family obligations", like what... Work? Perhaps we should rethink our globalized, modern economy that makes dual-income families a necessity. I really hope that by the time my kids get to have their kids, my wife and I are in condition to dedicate ourselves to help them as much as our own parents helped us.

- "Visa issues" is mostly an American thing, which unfortunately I also I am very familiar with (lived in the US before coming to Germany). The US is only going to solve the Milton Friedman dilemma: it can be either a country of Open Borders, or it can be a Welfare State. Until it tries to be both, it is doomed to these catastrophic policies.

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Re:No one wants to have kids anymore by notch656a on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:12PM (#33887121)

Yeah Brazil at least has Mercosur. It's pretty crazy North America doesn't have something similar considering capital can mostly freely flow between NAFTA countries.

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