Marriage and long term relationship rates have alao been plummeting along side every other “milestone” indicator. Obviously women have a much easier time becoming a single parent than men do, but single parents exist.
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viking@infosec.pub 5 months ago
“I would love to have a child, but I don’t think I could do it as one person with the costs of childcare and everything … "
Um, did someone forgot to factor the co-parent in, or is voluntary single parenting en vogue?
BakerBagel@midwest.social 5 months ago
viking@infosec.pub 5 months ago
I’m aware they exist, but the way it was phrased made it sound like that’s the plan all along.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
That’s my plan, well I’m looking at permanent care, but same goal.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Why are long-term relationship rates decreasing? Is this another effect of mentally ill Gen Z coming into adulthood?
BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s more of an effect of retarded boomer consequences they’re not willing to take responsibility for. I mean just look at the U.S as a whole and what damage those mentally disabled religious people have done over the last couple of years. Religious people should be locked up in asylums and have their children taken from them before they do more harm.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 months ago
You’ll need to be more specific. How do you think religion in the US is affecting the long-term relationships of young people?
DancingBear@midwest.social 5 months ago
I mean, for every female single parent there is a male single parent so your logic does not follow
BakerBagel@midwest.social 5 months ago
I’m a single guy. I have to go through an adoption process if i wanted to become a parent this year. That’s a lengthy process with background checks, home inspections,and placement surveys that are taxing, exhausting, and dehumanizing.
My sister is a single woman, she just needs to find a guy to sperm her up. They guy doesn’t even have to know that he impregnated her. Finding unknown fathers is a notoriously difficult task, even with modern genetic testing.
DancingBear@midwest.social 5 months ago
I hear what you are saying, I’m just pointing out that a dad does exist for every child.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Did you read the rest?
viking@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Yep. I agree with the other stuff, but that part caught my attention.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 5 months ago
It caught mine too, but the rest is still a damnin indictment on our current system
exocrinous@startrek.website 5 months ago
Fuck compulsory allosexuality.
stembolts@programming.dev 5 months ago
You read her words, they are clear. Take them at face value. The confusion is coming from your own perception of the situation, so change your perception, perhaps to what she said?
When I read it, I thought, “Ah, she’s planning for worst case scenario. Smart.” Especially in her generation. They are used to thinking like that because they’ve been fucked at every point in their life.
Seems like something is wrong with the world when this is the new reality for every generation to come. I remember the joke about capitalism, “You will own nothing, and be happy,” but it’s less funny when you see it happening to everyone.
At this point we’ve circled back to feudalism, there are a few lords, they control the government as well as production of everything. They are accountable to no one, they own all the land, due to their seizures od the government they can force the government to sell them government land for oil drilling, pipelines, etc.
We’re in the techno-middle-ages.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Varoufakis is that you?