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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago* (last edited 5 minutes ago)

I think this is where a lot of modern civilization is falling apart at. If you want population replacement and growth, you actually have to make it advantageous to have children, and at appropriate age for your society and culture. The GOP thinks they can do it by destroying reproductive rights, civil rights, and marriage laws, if they harm women enough they'll HAVE to be baby makers! Dehumanized baby factories! And even conservative voters are fighting against it, because it's insane and it's against our current culture. It has to work for everyone. It would be more intelligent to create free childcare, better pregnancy and birth leave for both parents, and child tax credits. They could use WIC to absorb the cost of having a child and public education sooner with preschool. If people are hopeful their children will have high education access and a stable life they will be a lot more likely to have kids. Being horrified that your children will live in a fascist theocracy and intentionally kept uneducated and poverty stricken, they might actually voluntarily avoid sex to not have kids.

[–] Reggie@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

Wrong thread. Im drunk

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I think the 20-24 line is hinting at a bad economy.

[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You just can't hear that hint over the hint of the constant torment of the growing lower class

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

For real. Middle class was a low but comfortable bar back in 1987 when I was born. My parents went above and beyond having two incomes, one of them being a small business. I do essentially the same thing as my mom small business wise, and my wife makes arguably more than my old man dad, but the thought of doubling our starter home (or even moving out of it) just hasn't crossed my mind.

And we also had kids about three years later on average than my folks did (though compared to my wife's folks, about five years earlier).

The '90s were fucking awesome (except for the acid rain, shit had me spooked in first grade when they played the laser disc about it).

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 87 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

There was a theory that roughly 15 years after Roe v Wade crime started decreasing because people who weren't ready for or didn't want children could now have an abortion. Many of those kids that were previously born "unwanted" were in poor households and so the kids getting to about 15 years old in those conditions would start getting into trouble and start committing crimes.

For any fuckwit that says "make better decisions then! Use protection!" I'm the result of a broken condom, that shit absolutely happens. I was a "pleasant surprise." Honestly I wish they'd have just had the abortion.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 24 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

My sister had her first child because her birth control failed due to another medication making it less effective.

No one warned her about that being a thing that can happen with that particular med. Not her doctor. Not the pharmacist. No one said a thing.. which is super fucked up. She was married at the time, but still. They were not ready for a kid(their words)

This was almost 20 years ago so I don't remember which med it was, and I'm hoping the medical community is better about this now.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's really honestly amazing that there are so many people in this world that don't understand that, A, married couples use birth control and have regular sex and, B, that birth control can fail.

Are they all incels are something?

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

"Your child its a miracle from god!" - anti abortionists

[–] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

PSA: Antibiotics will make your birth control less effective.

Also no they do not warn most people about that.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 3 points 2 hours ago

Came here to say this. It's not some edge case medicine that people rarely encounter. Just you had a sinus infection and now you're pregnant!

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

It doesn't get brought up because it's not useful to anyone politically. Already support abortion rights? Well then lower crime rates is just a positive unintended side effect of a policy that grants women their inherent right to bodily autonomy. Already oppose abortion rights? Then you probably don't care about crime rates because you already think that abortion itself is a crime.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 1 points 1 hour ago

Probably not, but I just thought it was interesting to bring up in relation to young age births that may or may not have been intentional.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 26 points 6 hours ago

It was never about stopping abortion. It’s about keeping people in poverty and creating a cycle of uneducated voters that either don’t vote or vote Republican because they don’t know better

[–] mostdubious@lemmy.world 33 points 7 hours ago (33 children)

please stop having babies ffs

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Found the pro-abortionist.

(For those that don't get the joke, notice that I didn't say pro-life or anti-choice. It's the "flush them all - no exceptions" position.)

[–] mostdubious@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

until we get it down to around half the current population, yes.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I think it's fine to have kids if you want them but the government trying to get people to have more kids for economic reasons is sickening

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