@kwi5331
Rent is the highest form of birth control.
@nicholasgoh3526
We are taught from young to live within our means and not to buy things we cannot afford. Yet now we are told to have babies - something we cannot afford and cannot be resold.
@jakefarm-h1x
The answer is no money. This saves you 18 mins
@beth8775
I have a better question: Why do news outlets keep asking a question with such obvious answers?!
@bolotabr12
It would be selfish to have babies if you cannot take care of them financially, emotionally and physically.
@truly-alive
Because those in power have already overexploited the resources.
@SakFifthAve63
"The wolves are complaining that the sheep are not breeding."
@Tat23-w7m
This question, that has been asked countless times, will receive the same answer countless times. It’s too expensive, the world doesn’t feel safe right now, parents have not made parenting look fun or desirable, the economy is unstable, parents don’t get any support, the village mentality is long gone, and society undoes parents hard work.
@bigfan2452
I am a 30 year old male and I am a Sudanese-Canadian living in Canada 🇨🇦. The main reason why I cannot have children is because of the Cost of living crisis. Everything is expensive, house, groceries, cars, insurance, gas prices. So, due to this reason I will not be having children anytime soon.
@roiblack8587
As long as having children is a poverty garante, people will not have more children. When the society provide more affordability for childcare, schools, colleges, work life balance etc things will not change. Period. No talk show, smart written articles and essays or documentary are neccessary for that. Those in power and in possession of wealth must decide: EITHER they exploit people with small salaries OR they finally see their fellow human beings as such and pay solid wages and provide a good social structure for families. End of story.
@maxinahunt8652
One massive omission: those women, and men, who just don’t want children. There’s all this talk about “can’t” while ignoring those who given the choice simply don’t want that life. Children would be better off if they were raised by people who genuinely want them, not by people who are socially pressured.
@sluglife9785
As someone who's had chronic illness which no one gives a shit about, you're taking a giant risk when you have a kid. You may, like my mother, produce little balls of suffering.
@ctrl-shift-run8681
I know money is often cited as the reason but i think that's only half the story. Unless you have 'f u' money, your lifestyle takes a huge hit after having kids. Not to mention that in modern society, it's both parents having to work and that means lots of tough decisions in the early years around childcare, working late, overtime etc. It's like working an additional job on top of the day job.
@adamapplegarth3585
I love how politicians act like they don’t know why this is happening, they are avoiding the solution because they are obsessed with filling their pockets.
@IvoryRajkumari
The systems are trash. How are the young suppose to buy homes without proper jobs or incomes? How do we survive the cost of living crisis? How are women who choose to work full time, have kids, study and take care of a household live and thrive? This is insane.
@Haveahollyjollylife
28 year old female from the US here. I have a dual engineering degree and have worked on top projects at 2 fortune 50 (FIFTY) companies. Grew up in a single breadwinner household. Can’t even afford the life my parents provided to me, much less a better life for my child, and that’s without inflation. When someone hands me $900k I’ll have a kid, otherwise not interested in dropping below the poverty line to add only stress to my life
@ichifish
In the past 40 years the external forces attacking family life have developed rapidly: companies are worse to work for and worse at delivering quality goods. Screens suck the life out of us and brainwash into believing bunk ideology. Lifestyle diseases like obesity, directly caused by corporate greed, are hard to avoid. The current climate will feel like paradise compared to what it's going to be in 20 years. Food will only become more expensive. And frankly the fertility "crisis" is only a crisis for the oligarchs. For most of humanity it will be an improvement in living standards, assuming climate change and water wars don't destroy us first.
@Suursuo
Funny how people who have had children say that the best thing they have had in their lives is their children but the same people talk about childless people as if they are some kind of people who have avoided some civic duty and they should be ashamed.
@maladaptor
Life sucks - why pass it on?
@BBCWorldService