If you scroll to the bottom of the article, they post their sources, including studies published in peer reviewed journals. I’m sure most of us see this headline and go, “Duh,” but here we have hard data. Every time our billionaire and political overlords wring their hands about birthrates, the collective response from all of us should be, “fuck you, pay me, or kick rocks.”
No shit Sherlock
We never got the chance to have kids but all my family and friends have a bunch. All I see is how everyone is struggling to get by. The only way this current generation can survive is if their parents help them out with everything … housing, food, employment, education, health, child care. If you don’t have parents who are able or capable, you’re not going to make it.
In the 80s and 90s it was possible to get by on your own and make a bit of a living if you worked hard enough. It’s not possible any more and I have no idea how any one under the age of 20 can survive the future without wealthy parents. And the scary part is that those wealthy parents are dying off … in the next 20/30 years, those wealthy parents are expecting to have their kids look after them in old age. Those kids will be debt looking after themselves in 20/30 years and either won’t have the energy or money to look after their parents.
I’m screwed as far as I can see … we don’t have any dependants so by the time I get old and feeble, I’m going to be pushed into a corner of some dumpy old age home and left to die in my own dirty diaper.
Kind of. I was a teen in the 80s and had kids in the 90s and 00s. The 80s were hard, the economy was not great, where I live you can always get a job (even now, and even back then) but to make rent we had 6 people working the minimum wage jobs. 3 couples in one house.
I did buy a shitty house cheap (there don’t seem to be any of those anymore) but then we had 4 people living on 15k a year, could not maintain a house, could not improve much because the insurance was so high.
Downtown was dead, Ybor was dead, there was blight and violence, so much violence and crime.
Now it seems everything is fancy and safe and pretty and so expensive. Downtown has apartments but out of reach on a regular salary, you still need 6 minimum wage workers to rent a house.
As Hayes Carll says in his American Dream song: “Nothing changes, even when it wants to.”