- 24 Oct 2022 22:45
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I know what you're saying, and i'm not a neoliberal nor economically conservative, but I don't think it only comes down to one variable (economics). And I'm not only blaming feminism. More people just don't want kids, you have to acknowledge this. I know many people like this personally. They don't want to be tied down with the responsibility, they would rather spend their time and money on themselves.
Yeah it's expensive to raise kids, it always has been. My parents had several brothers and sisters and they grew up without much money in houses much smaller than today but they still managed. No big master bedrooms with on-suite bathrooms, 1 car for the family, out of town vacations were rare and they never took commercial flights for vacations to the Caribbean every year, maybe they had a trip like driving to Disneyworld once every 5 years. Some people have certain lifestyles they wish to maintain, and the medical technology & abortion rights now exist now to limit children to whatever people want. So a lot of it is what priorities people have. Saying "they materially can't have kids" is nonsense. What they can't do is have more kids while maintaining a certain standard of living/lifestyle. And i'm sorry but many women want to have careers while also raising families, most weren't forced into the workplace. You can't blame everything on capitalism as if people are simply victims, people have also made certain choices.
Fasces wrote:But this isn't a question of Christian values.
It's not that men and women don't want to live in single-income homes or raise families. They materially can't.
The anti-feminists - the Reagans and libertarian conservatives of the world - have done more to destroy traditional institutions of family than any feminist.
I know what you're saying, and i'm not a neoliberal nor economically conservative, but I don't think it only comes down to one variable (economics). And I'm not only blaming feminism. More people just don't want kids, you have to acknowledge this. I know many people like this personally. They don't want to be tied down with the responsibility, they would rather spend their time and money on themselves.
Yeah it's expensive to raise kids, it always has been. My parents had several brothers and sisters and they grew up without much money in houses much smaller than today but they still managed. No big master bedrooms with on-suite bathrooms, 1 car for the family, out of town vacations were rare and they never took commercial flights for vacations to the Caribbean every year, maybe they had a trip like driving to Disneyworld once every 5 years. Some people have certain lifestyles they wish to maintain, and the medical technology & abortion rights now exist now to limit children to whatever people want. So a lot of it is what priorities people have. Saying "they materially can't have kids" is nonsense. What they can't do is have more kids while maintaining a certain standard of living/lifestyle. And i'm sorry but many women want to have careers while also raising families, most weren't forced into the workplace. You can't blame everything on capitalism as if people are simply victims, people have also made certain choices.