Raising a child in the U.S. costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many younger Americans say they can't afford it.
  • shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Well it’s 3 things for me:

    1. Too expensive
    2. Don’t think I’d make a good dad, especially since:
    3. I really don’t like children.

    I’m not an antinatalist, though. I think we can still improve our situation, so I don’t agree with choosing to not have children, because of the current state of the world, or because of fear it’ll become too extreme. I guess it’s possible you just want to wait to see if it gets any better, but personally speaking, if I were to have children, I’d choose to do so before I was 40. It isn’t enjoyable for the child, for them to be born much later than that.