What a sad and depressing way to look at children. Treating them not as your own child to nurture and care for but as a carbon producing entity. I often wonder if the people that have this outlook on kids suddenly changes them drastically when they do actually have kids. It’s a mentality I’ve seen increasingly appearing on this site - I’m not gonna have kids cause the environment. Stop believing the hysteria that the world is gonna end in 2030 and live your life!
The other sad thing in the article is the Facebook group for women who regret having children. Imagine having your children find out about the group and the damage it does to their psyche.
There is seemingly a sizable section of the population who mark all social change as having an origin point sometime in the 1950's, regarding any human culture before then to be essentially a variant of the 1950's, just with more horses. This article being a great example.
If someone wants to prune their line out of the tree of life, good for them I suppose.
Millions of years, says Yes. And that's just considering humans.
doesn't seem like he or frank, the piece's author, are reporting on women's choices with objectivity or real research (or empathy).