Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service

Re:Need help with students who've turned my class into a dat... by t-writescode on Monday January 30, 2023 @10:45PM (#34590663)

> people having the wealth and freedom to enjoy their 20s and 30s unburdened by children

and people *not* having the wealth and freedom to have children, being burdened by 80+ hour work weeks to pay rent on a place they'll never own or have capital in.

Listen to the millenials and gen z'ers before you make bold accusations.

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Re:Need help with students who've turned my class into a dat... by nvrmnd on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:16PM (#34590993)

I spent some time researching this after reading your comment, not a lot admittedly. There seems to be a great deal of uncertainty around the topic but I came away with the impression the parent comment is closer to the truth than your own.

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Re:Need help with students who've turned my class into a dat... by drewcoo on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:39PM (#34591211)

Unintended pregnancies have continued to rise among the poor and fall among the wealthy (including folks with decent birth control who don't think they can afford a child) for decades now.

This data's a little old, but makes the point:

https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2013/unintended-preg...

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Re:Need help with students who've turned my class into a dat... by abigail95 on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:29PM (#34591124)

you need an enormous income before you have kids at the replacement rate, many multiples of the cost of their care.

in every meaningful sense the income/fertility relationship is negative.

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Re:Need help with students who've turned my class into a dat... by dymk on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:52AM (#34597591)

Go look at some graphs, when wealth and education go up, birth rates go down.

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