re: No one wants to raise families anymore

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No one wants to raise families anymore

Just from observing some family and friends and people I grew up with, or knew in High School and College.

It seems like the majority of people in their 20's and 30's have given up on the traditional American family lifestyle in exchange for travel, pets, and material. It feels like if this trend continues we won't have much of a civilization left in a generation or two.

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Not all but most and the ones that aren't wanting to reproduce are also the ones you don't want reproducing

Society and civilization will be MUCH better without the materialistic people.
The same people that are pushing for killing off "Whiteness" and not sure of their gender are the ones that aren't having children are the ones that are going to be depriving future generations of their presence and I say they can't die off fast enough.

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Pretty sure commies want to have lots of children to be slaves for the state.

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Can you point to one example of a communist government which pushes having kids?

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Buy something you can afford even if it isn’t exactly the hip neighborhood you want to live in long term

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this is kind of BS right now

Suburban starter homes with 45 min commutes are priced outrageously much less stepping up.

Small single stories in the suburbs are going for over 300k. By the old 3x yearly income rule that means the household income should be minimum 6 figures to get a single story tract starter home in the suburbs. We aren’t talking about “hip” areas.





You can say all you want “don’t buy into this market” but some people get transferred or they have a new opportunity to move up in a different company

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Small single stories in the suburbs are going for over 300k. By the old 3x yearly income rule that means the household income should be minimum 6 figures to get a single story tract starter home in the suburbs. We aren’t talking about “hip” areas.

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You noticed that graph has valleys, not just peaks - right?

Guess I haven’t noticed this as much. My wife and I have three kids, almost everyone I know that I keep in touch with from HS and college is married and is either pregnant or have kids, and pretty much everyone we meet locally our age or older has kids.

Now people are definitely waiting longer to get married and have kids. We had our first when I was 27 and most of the above people waited until 30+.

I have 2 white kids!

And my 8 year old is already red pulled!

It's the 4 year old girl who I'll really need to raise well.

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It’s very easy to criticize and tell others to throw money away renting for half a decade that you will for sure never see again.

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Do you imagine you are the first person to rent for years?

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Marriage and a traditional family unit are for the upper-middle class and above.

Millennials and Gen Z are facing ever-increasing roadblocks to moving into the upper-middle class, so, obviously, marriage and traditional families aren't really options.

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Too many ITT are focusing on the second sentence of your post, when the real problem is the first.

The question is, who enacted the policies that destroyed marriage and traditional family formation for all but the well-to-do?

And why aren't Millennials and Gen Z holding the people (and political parties) who created the situation accountable for their actions?

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People have abandoned God. It's not really news though.

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Amen, brother ! That's the largest problem we have. If that problem were fixed, that would solve 95% of the rest of them automatically. For the 5 people who gave the OP thumbs down votes, you all are the problem.

Two incomes can’t come up with $100k a year in total income to afford these homes?

They can. They just don’t want to live in the burbs or commit to getting married