in contrast basically none of my friends are having kids, to the point where my impression of population growth is that the human race decided to stop reproducing in 2020
None of my friends have kids, but nearly all of my coworkers do and even speaking of getting more. It's weird. Thankfully I'm leaving soon. I want coworkers who will have time to befriend my gay ass.
Could be age thing? I'm in my late thirties and most of my friends have had their kids in the last five years.
to some extent. gen mz is not having children due to the economic climate in several countries. id argue one of the reasons you might see more late 30s is because some women worry about becoming less fertile, as after 30, you progressively have a harder time to give birth, and gets much worse as time passes on, so those who want children are pushed to do so sooner rather than later.
That's about a good time to adopt a rando 5yo and find out which of your friends are racist or natalist.
I think some Elder Millenials were lucky enough to get enough scraps to still pull off the house/kids thing, but anyone younger prob. has way worse odds.
no they need to stop having jobs
hell yeah
Go hang out at their house and play with their kids
Signed,
-A Parent.
Heading over to do bong rips and watch the X-rated cut of RoboCop with your four year old rn
This is less of a dealbreaker for some people than you’d imagine as long as you’re not hot boxing the living room or blowing smoke in their face lol
No me and the little tyke would be trading rips on the back porch while he goes on the four year old equivalent of a hot couch guy tirade
I've gone outside or into the designated smoking room while hanging with friend's kids and essentially was this. Tbf they were hot couch parents as well. Not bad at the job and the kid is pretty much an adult now and more well adjusted than her parents by a bit. They were old train hopping punx doing the best they could, but yknow the face tatted before it was acceptable were always around and stuff. It was joked about that she couldn't really run away from home cause her folks knew everyone on the road
That's awesome. Glad she turned out good.
She was sent home in elementary school for having wayyy too scary a haloween costume. Full blood soaked black metal look.
Edibles my guy.
"you wanna see something real fucked up, kid?"
I saw that dude get half-melted by toxic waste in Betamax when I was 4 and it is not at all why I didn't turn out fine
See, you get to be the cool uncle instead of the boring parent
Seconding this. I had kids earlier than most of my friends and we essentially got abandoned for years by them because they were really weird about so many aspects of the necessary changes we were making.
I gave birth to a cat instead
Good call. You can leave a one year old cat by itself for hours and still have time for friends. I try to convince my parent friends to do that with their kids but everyone seems to think its a bad idea.
Just make a commune where everyone helps take care of each others kids and life is easier.
That’s basically what it’s like in my town because of how large the traditional indigenous population is. Only real downside is that you never get a moment of peace because they view you as an accessible family member and will walk into your house without asking all the time.
As a maximally alienated white person with no family and few something social relations that sounds pretty nice.
My Most Adult friend has a son and that kid kicks ass and we can't wait till he's old enough to join us for DnD.
nah kids rock
go round to your friends' houses, help them make dinner and make funny faces at the tiny, goofy-ass person. it rules
I hate people that complain all the time but never offer any solutions. How exactly am I (a sex haver) supposed to stop having kids?
Edit: Are you looking for friends?
condom
Vasectomy works. Or tubal ligation. Whichever is appropriate. Seriously, who would willingly bring a kid into this soon to be uninhabitable world?
Seriously, who would willingly bring a kid into this soon to be uninhabitable world?
Anti-natalism is cringe.
My parents were born during the Great Chinese Famine and lived through the Cultural Revolution. Their parents were born during the Chinese Civil War and lived through fighting the Japanese and the KMT. All of these world shattering events and never once did any of them regret living.
Anti-natalism is cringe.
Denial is, well, denial.
None of those events produced the methane rich superheated atmosphere that runaway global warming is bringing us, which is ACTUALLY going to be "world-shattering". Feedback loops don't end until equilibrium is reached, the earth has seen it before, we are seeing it now. Ignoring it isn't going to make it go away.
yea lol people clearly still aren't grasping how terrible things are going to get soon if they think the Great Chinese Famine compares. it's not anti-natalism to not want your own child to have to go through that!
The Chinese had it all figured out with the 1 child policy: have 1 so you're below population replacement rate, and the reserve army of labor still shrinks, and wages go up, but at the same time you get to raise a tiny little comrade.
spoiler
don't take this post as a serious assessment of all the ramifications of the 1 child policy pls, it's a shitpost
Easily done, I can barely take care of myself and the whole birth thing makes me think of chestbursters from Aliens, big scary nope.
God I'm in my mid-30's and the idea of being responsible for a whole ass human being still terrifies me.
i'm not anti-natalist, i'm pro-hanging with the boys
offer to babysit
this is very important because I need friends to chill with. please!
yes plz. I need to meet single people my age IRL. people should stop spending so much time working too.
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