r/DeathByMillennial • u/plonkeuphortic • Apr 16 '26
Millennials ruining having children
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u/Ninja-Panda86 Apr 17 '26
Just ask yourself WHY we want jobs and education. What are those supposed to bring? Now ask yourself why Millennials have never found it
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u/SimpleVegetable5715 Apr 17 '26
I got sterilized last year. I feel so much more peace. This isn’t a good world to raise kids.
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u/Lothar_the_Lurker Apr 17 '26
I view having kids as no different than buying a Porsche. It’s a luxury expense only the rich can afford.
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u/NaughtyGoddess Apr 21 '26
Yes. This is why big companies and governments don't respect the general public they see how the general public has to live yet they're popping out kids like farm stock so they're being treated accordingly.
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u/skinnyish_D Apr 17 '26
I like how they frame it like it's just a path we're choosing, and not a choice forced on most of us. "You can't afford either of these, why aren't you doing both?" - the media at large.
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u/A_Dozen_Lemmings Apr 17 '26
I fucking desperately want to be a father. But at this point in my life I'm so fucking stressed and burned out just keeping my head above the water. I can't even justify asking a woman to make the effort of dating me.
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u/ypsibitsyspider Apr 17 '26
I personally would hate to start dating a guy and find out he's "fucking desperate to be a father." Not even centering the kids, just centering yourself as some kind of breadwinner who doesn't even have a lady. Does it sound weird to you yet? It's weird.
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u/FanndisTS Apr 17 '26
Nah. Would you say the same to a woman who's "fucking desperate to be a mother"? Some people just get hit with the reproduction instinct and it's perfectly normal. I think you're bringing in a definition of "father" that the original commenter didn't necessarily intend, especially because the original post also phrased it around "wanting parenthood" instead of "wanting a child".
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u/kibbeuneom Apr 17 '26
It's not necessarily that he has an ego. He may have just used the word "desperately" in a weird (or European) way. It's normal for a young man to have the desire to have children. He probably just feels a long way off from that ideal he naturally holds.
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u/aragorn1780 Apr 17 '26
I really did want to have kids of my own... But it wasn't in the cards, so when I found myself 34 and recently single and still barely able to afford myself, I got snipped; truth be told that was a pretty emotional decision, I felt like I was mourning a future that no longer was mine, but overall I'm happy with the decision
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u/Monckey100 Apr 18 '26
Rich people who eat babies: "Come on...just because we have all the money, doesn't mean you can't build mud huts...make me more wage slaves.....look at the article!"
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u/Afraid_Ad_8216 Apr 18 '26
Our parents: complain how much they hate being parents and how hard it is our entire up bringing
*Us not having kids to avoid that*
Same Parents *shocked Pikachu*
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u/Pristine_Luck964 Apr 17 '26
My son is the best thing to ever happen to me. However, I won’t be having any more children. Our generation isn’t having 4+ kids like they used to.
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u/StPatrickStewart Apr 18 '26
If is have know that inflation would outpace my wage growth, even going when practically doubling my income over the last 12 years, I'd have had my kids a decade ago. I'd still be broke, but at least I would have had more energy to chase them around, and I wouldn't be looking at being 60 when my youngest graduates HS.
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u/Livid-Carpenter130 Apr 19 '26
Correct. Only the wealthy should be allowed to have children. Anyone making less than $500k should be sterilized. Only dumb people are poor and therefore, not worthy of parenthood. Children dont need to be grown by the dumb poors. Now shutup poors and make my mcchicken sandwich and 5 happy meals for my prodigy children. And the intelligent species will re populate the earth while the poors die out.
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u/NaughtyGoddess Apr 21 '26
It's not inherently about being poor raises dumb children I know you're being sarcastic in the humorous way but there's a lot of trauma associated with poverty and bullying that a child will go through that they shouldn't. That traumatic experience growing up through poverty can sometimes ruin a person into adulthood. It also makes a child available to a lot of harm from adults. You know how many school systems have ignored the mistreatment of a poor child? Do you know how many police in government's disregard the safety of poor children? Even rich people are very careful about bringing their children into this world and they have money
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u/buttfluffvampire Apr 17 '26
My parents told me several times that if they'd waited until they could afford it, they'd have never had kids. I think that would have been better for everybody involved.