re: 40% of young US women say they aren’t having kids because they’re too expensive

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. It's not the governments role to subsidize procreation

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To be clear, I don't think that we should have a tax code that the government uses for social engineering in the first place.

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I don't see how the two tie into each other?

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They’re definitely connected.

Native US citizens aren’t having enough kids to continue the country on a growth trajectory.

I knew a few women who, in their college years or mid-twenties talked about not having kids. Not many were like that, maybe a half dozen or so.

Over twenty years have passed since then. Two things have happened.

1. Whether she changed her mind or something unexpected happened or she married a man who essentially insisted they have kids, SOME of.the former anti-kid girls become moms, and most could not be happier and find it much more pleasurable and easier than they expected.

2. Another group didn't change their minds, didn't have kid and the vast majority deeply regret it. Both purely emotionally but also from a practical standpoint. It's good to have a 30-year-old you can call to help you screw in a lightbulb or put up a new mailbox or just sit with you late into the night on thanksgiving. Most deeply regret their decision.

None of these women are lesbians, they just thought at the time that having kids would be a pain in the rear and take away from hitting the bars and doing what 26 year olds consider fun.

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Cohabitation before marriage became normalized because adults straight up can’t afford rent on their own.

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1. Because sex is awesome.
2. Because you don’t truly know someone until you live with them.
3-10 Other reasons
11. Share rent. (Women are often more expensive than the offset in rent )

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Infertility rates are on the rise. I believe, at least in part, due to women being on birth control for extended periods of time.

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Plenty of environmental factors causing infertility, as well.

There are going to be so many cats.

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The dirt poor ancestors needed kids for labor. Not the case anymore.

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They also had kids to take care of them in old age. The more kids they had, the better they'd be taken care of. Now that the government is in the business of caring for the elderly, people don't see the need to have kids for that reason anymore.

Because a shrinking population isn’t shrinking in all age groups. It greys, meaning that there are fewer working age people and more elderly people who need to be cared for. The shortage of workers basically causes entitlement systems and infrastructure to implode as most of society’s efforts become taking care of the elderly. This typically causes the working adults to have even fewer resources with which to have children, so it triggers a demographic death spiral that eventually ends in full societal/economic collapse.