๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ "not yet begun to fight"Low birth rates among the younger generations are a direct function of wealth inequality in America but Boomers aren't ready for that conversation. Do you know how bad you have to abuse a mammal to make it not want to have children?
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@Lana Seriously, friend, please stop blaming the Boomers for everything. Ageism is still bad.
@msbellows told you you weren't ready for this conversation
@Lana I'm absolutely happy to have this conversation! It's one our family has been having! It's important! It affects my children profoundly! And many of my older friends are concerned about it too. It's a cultural and economic-class blindness, not a generational one.
(Also, I'm proudly Gen Jones, not a Boomer.)
Kineneโญ๐ป@msbellows @Lana Also Gen Jones... and no kids. I read The Population Bomb and The Limits to Growth when they were published.
Not my fault.
Not my fault.
Anne Ominous@c_merriweather @msbellows @Lana
GenX no kids
and my father, a Silent Generationer, told us so many stories about how awful it was to be a parent, how many sacrifices have to made, how little reward there is, that not a single one of his three children had kids themselves.
so ... i think there are people ready to have that conversation, it just may not go the way you think it would