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While I think the trend toward delayed parenthood is a big problem & maternal age is the best indicator for that, this is not a lady problem. I don’t even think this mess has much to do w feminism or tinder. Cultural pessimism, memes about parents + deranged norms do the trick
A lot of people who feel any desire at all to be parents have so internalized the idea that it is both boring & all-consuming that they cannot imagine going for it until they’re already bored & feeling somewhat directionless re: everything else in life
Why is delayed parenthood a problem? Increased health risks? Or something else?
not to mention the cost of raising a child in the cities w/ the most employment growth / best job prospects is quite high (& growing rapidly)
Yes, and all the workarounds that poor families use are dismissed as virtually equivalent to child abuse or neglect — leaving children with friends, using “screens” to get some downtime, letting older children entertain themselves without supervision, etc
Children are almost always exciting. They’re full of life and wonder. Creativity machines. I’ve got to wonder if things can be re-ordered for women, so they can have children whilst younger, then have a career later when things actually ARE boring?
I have a general sense that we have some weird cultural assumptions about people in their 40s/50s/60s in the workplace that make people very afraid of not having secured major career accomplishments or a high place in the corporate hierarchy by that point
Material precarity as well. Trying to raise a child in a large coastal urban environment requires either acceptance of something less than an ideal childhood (a problem of norms, as you say) or the type of disposable income available to very few 20somethings.
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