[HN Gopher] New study reports 1 in 5 adults don't want children,...
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New study reports 1 in 5 adults don't want children, and don't
regret it later
Author : rntn
Score : 21 points
Date : 2023-04-05 21:12 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| tmnvix wrote:
| I've often wondered how many people do regret having children. I
| imagine it would be hard to come up with reliable statistics -
| nobody would want to admit that out loud.
| adamredwoods wrote:
| I think that it is difficult without a support network. Having
| extended families and a large property helps, and as a society
| we're moving away from both. I can see parental regret
| increasing for those struggling.
| psychphysic wrote:
| I agree it's tricky.
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| Having kids doesn't seem like the kind of thing you can really
| judge without having had kids.
|
| Especially since you're basically manipulated by biology once
| the process starts.
| DaveExeter wrote:
| Some of them admit it on the internet.
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| https://www.reddit.com/r/regretfulparents/
| spacedcowboy wrote:
| I never used to think I wanted kids, until I had a kid.
|
| Life-changing doesn't even begin to describe it. _Everything_
| changes.
| DaveExeter wrote:
| For better or for worse?
| adamredwoods wrote:
| Both. It's the journey that counts, and it's a difficult one.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| > We found that 20.9% of adults in Michigan do not want children,
| which closely matches our earlier estimate of 21.6%, and means
| that over 1.6 million people in Michigan are child-free.
|
| For the sake of unwanted children, I wish it worked that way. The
| article, at least, seems to conflate a bunch of things. It's
| bizarre to read.
| adamredwoods wrote:
| N = 1000
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| https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
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| >> Focusing on adults aged 70 or older, we find that parents
| express more life regret (M = 3.87, SE = 0.20) than childfree
| adults (M = 3.30, SE = 0.39), but that the difference is not
| statistically significant (t127 = 1.29, p = 0.20). This suggests
| that childfree adults do not experience more life regret than
| parents in their late years of life.
| aaron695 wrote:
| [dead]
| sublinear wrote:
| > Many adults are child-free, and there do not seem to be
| differences by age, education or income
|
| I find the lack of correlation with income surprising. My own
| experience has been that people of lower income tend to have more
| kids when they do and are more likely to be stuck in codependent
| relationships.
|
| My perspective has always been that higher income individuals
| don't regret skipping kids because they have their investments to
| take care of them in old age, they're happier because they had
| better control of their finances and time throughout their life,
| and they aren't necessarily lonely because high income
| individuals tend to find each other and can keep it casual
| indefinitely... I guess I'm wrong, or is Michigan not as good of
| a sample as the article believes?
| than3 wrote:
| It is not really surprising at all.
|
| There is very little hope for a free future, and that won't
| change because too much profit backs it. All the corporations
| care for is profit and coercion, all the politican's care for
| is increasing power and grandstanding. There is no actual
| representation left, and politicians don't see inaction as
| violating oaths they swore.
|
| The previous generation grew up having certain minimal things,
| and then proceeded to enrich themselves, and remove those same
| opportunities from future generations. Generations since have
| come to find out the many of these promises were not true, they
| were lied to and not only that, they were stolen from on a
| grand scale to fund benefits that only benefit one aging
| generation (social security).
|
| People have choices, and for a growing number of people, they
| find it would be inhumane to bring a child into a world where
| that child would be no better than a slave and suffer. Hence we
| are seeing the last generation for a lot of intelligent people.
|
| The way things are going, we are headed for an inevitable
| collapse on scale never before seen. A railroad track going off
| a cliff, and we are racing down it at full speed.
|
| Without the most modern technology, we can only feed 2-4
| billion max. When things break, and they will because current
| systems are engineered to be brittle with single points of
| failure because that is most profitable, at least half dies.
|
| Who would ever wish this on their children, let alone engineer
| it such that the people that want to stop it are prevented from
| doing so (for profit)?
|
| Its a race to the bottom, where only the ruthless, unethical,
| and lucky survive.
| [deleted]
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