cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27368980

I am curious if the majority of leftist people don’t actually want children haha. There doesn’t seem to be any studies about it, but my convos with leftists is that most don’t seem to want to have children either for the uncertainty of the future or because they are too expensive or because it wouldn’t give them too much time to organize or whatever other reason that I forgot about.

I personally lean on not having children because I have been laid off of several jobs and having someone financially dependent to me scares the shit out of me and would put my stress levels through the roof.

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.ml
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    22 hours ago

    I live in a country that according to a study is the nr 1 in outsourcing their children.
    Nanny, babysits, daycare, etc… Parents have less and less time to raise them in our performance-work-oriented societies.
    Even if they could and have the time, it is also known they only have a minor part of shaping them.
    Outside factors combined, school, their friends and worse of all social media have a bigger impact.
    And I see those ‘parents’ all the time, proud of how they’re raising a child while both having successful carreers.
    These people wake their kids and see them again when they put them to bed.
    On top of that I glanced over an article recently (since I have no kids) about those children that get little attention from their parents.
    A lot of mental problems later and even a substantial rise in percentage of psychopats.