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Midnight Writer

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4. The reason for so few babies is that people can now plan their families and avoid unwanted pregnancies.

Reply to ancianita (Original post)

Mon May 25, 2026, 03:26 PM

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Having a child is an awesome responsibility, a lifetime obligation. Not only financially, but in every aspect of the parent's life.

If folks have the option of choosing how many children they have, most will try to stay within their financial and emotional means.

If conservatives want more babies, then they should make the burdens of parenthood less onerous. Instead, they are doing the opposite, encouraging the rich to suck every available dollar, every available minute from our lives.

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Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All [View all] ancianita Monday OP

Even if I were inclined to have wanted kids, FoxNewsSucks Monday #1

Totally understandable. Yours is the same reason my youngest son refuses to ever have children. ancianita Monday #2

Yep. I felt that way 45 years ago. Auggie Monday #3

The reason for so few babies is that people can now plan their families and avoid unwanted pregnancies. Midnight Writer Monday #4

Maybe to some extent, but hope or no hope for the near future seems to matter greatly Attilatheblond Monday #6

We had our two sons when Bill Clinton was President. We wouldn't do so now, were we young enough to do so. NNadir Monday #5

Understood. Were I young I'd note the international numbers and seriously consider doing the same. ancianita Monday #11

I have always told right to lifers randr Monday #7

Amen, amen! ancianita Monday #8

George Carlin's description of pro-forced birthers, oops, right-to-lifers: niyad Monday #10

I was very fortunate to come of age when The Pill was becoming niyad Monday #9

It takes two incomes in many cases just to pay for rent, car, living expenses. Diamond_Dog Monday #12

I think AI is in the background, being used for jobs humans used to do, men included. Though AI will never surpass human ancianita Monday #13

My grandson decided at the age of twenty-two that he was never going to have kids. Aristus Monday #14

It is because women now have a choice to say "no" to men and their institutions. valleyrogue Monday #15

yup Skittles Monday #16