Namrata Nangia and her husband have been toying with the idea of having another child since their five-year-old daughter was born.
But it always comes back to one question: ‘Can we afford it?’
She lives in Mumbai and works in pharmaceuticals, her husband works at a tyre company. But the costs of having one child are already overwhelming - school fees, the school bus, swimming lessons, even going to the GP is expensive.
It was different when Namrata was growing up. “We just used to go to school, nothing extracurricular, but now you have to send your kid to swimming, you have to send them to drawing, you have to see what else they can do.”
According to a new report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN agency for reproductive rights, Namrata’s situation is becoming a global norm.
Capitalism needs to choose if it wants everybody to work to exhaustion with slavery wages or if it wants people to have healthy relationships and kids. Can’t have both.
Ah, but there’s the third option, just outlaw contraception and abortions. Capitalism is only incompatible with kids if you give your slaves the ability to choose if and when to have them.
Good
Great news. Now, time to focus on automating as much of elderly care as possible (and beyond) before it all goes to hell.
This warms my heart. A rare bit of good news these days.
The reason there are fewer child births in the US since the 90s is mainly the reduction of pregnancies in the demographic “25 and younger”. They didn’t made a conscious choice, looking at their abacus and evaluating the state of the world. They slipped into it and were forced to make it work. Interestingly, they then still had children later in life as well, for more complex and personal reasons.
It seems to me, that if you give woman the choice, they choose not be pregnant at the cost of their career.
Good
Ditto
This is not because of fertility.
That is one smug-looking baby.
Good. We elect fucking fascists and let people murder our world, we as a race deserve to die out.
I love my kids so much I chose not to bring them into this fucked up world.
ive been saying that exact sentance for my entire adult life. lol.
It’ll be weird if the world gets a lot better and in 20 years everyone wants to have geriatric pregnancies
*looks around* That’s a pretty big if.
i believe in us 🥺
Plenty of kids in need of adoption.
Maybe life shouldn’t be that expensive (food/shelter), and IVF programs be free.
Damn dirty communist out here demanding
Checks notes
Affordable living and healthcare
Just despicable!
Yeah, what are those damn commies going to demand next, human rights?
The gall
🤣✊
Fuck yeah. I got my nads snipped
I would never subject a child to the same life I have had to live
It’s abuse
When business is the world’s first priority, why does it come as a surprise that people don’t feel like bringing an innocent life into the orphan crushing machine?
Fucking good.
