Showing posts with label childlessness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label childlessness. Show all posts
Friday, September 18, 2026
Spermageddon, ‘greedy jobs’ and abject fear: why birth rates are plummeting – and why it matters
Talking about “996” culture in China (working 9am to 9pm, six days a week), Cavendish quotes one guy: “Not only do I struggle to find time for reproductive behaviour, but I also can’t find a reason to have a baby who will eventually grow into another human labourer for capitalists to exploit.” And then another: “The entire situation is incredibly depressing. I feel like a cow surrounded by breeders who are discussing whether to play Mozart or Chopin to make my meat more tender.” Whatever you feel instinctively about the drive to have children being outside the rational, homo economicus self, it’s hard to really argue with those…
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Americans putting life on hold amid economic anxiety under Trump, poll shows
Exclusive: Harris poll for Guardian finds people reconsidering major life events such as having children or buying a home…
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/12/americans-economy-trump-poll
Women scoff at Trump’s meager ‘baby bonuses’
"Maybe people will want to have children more often if we weren't struggling to find jobs, struggling to pay our student loans, struggling to pay for food," she said. "Five thousand dollars doesn't even begin to even cover childcare for one month. It just seems really ridiculous."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/trump-baby-bonus-childbirth-pronatalism?
Monday, December 2, 2024
Is it safe to have a child? Americans rethink family planning ahead of Trump’s return
"We have two children and I have desperately wanted a third – but now I am fearful of being able to get adequate care if I get pregnant," wrote another woman who lives in Louisiana. "I can't risk leaving my two children behind if [I] die because I can't get adequate care here. It feels like a dystopian novel, and yet here we are."
These worries are not necessarily new. In 2023, a Pew Research Center surveyfound that 47% of 18- to 49-year-old US adults say they are unlikely to ever have kids – a steep jump from 2018, when 37% said the same. Of the people who are unlikely to have kids, 38% said "concerns about the state of the world" were a major part of their decision-making. Roughly a quarter pointed to fears about the environment....
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
He has already fathered many children. Now Musk wants all of the US to embrace extreme breeding | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
What sort of lessons would that entail? Teaching people that while a woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth – and maternal mortality rates are increasing in the US – it's childlessness you should be afraid of? It's easy for Musk, who will never have to carry any of the children he's so keen on having, to be blase about pregnancy risks: he can outsource them all. Still, you'd think he might be more sensitive to the issue considering the musician Grimes, with whom he shares three children, almost died during her pregnancy with son X Æ A-12. That led Grimes and Musk to use a surrogate for their next child...
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Heritage Foundation Leader Kevin Roberts’ Book is Horrifying (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
In this bonus episode, the discussion centers around JD Vance’s controversial comments on family values, focusing on his interview with Dana Bash where he criticized childless individuals and politically framed ‘anti-family’ culture. The episode delves into the broader ideological underpinnings connected to Kevin Roberts and the Heritage Foundation, exploring their critical stance on contraception, IVF, and childlessness. The discussion also connects these views to a historical context, referencing the religious right and exploring the concept of ‘common good conservatism.’
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:20 JD Vance’s Controversial Comments
04:12 The Heritage Foundation and Paul Weyrich
05:34 Kevin Roberts’ Book and Its Implications
13:26 Common Good Conservatism and Its Influences
15:47 Conclusion and Subscription Offer
Interview:
Saturday, August 17, 2024
Opinion | Manliness, Cat Ladies, Fertility Panic and the 2024 Election - The New York Times
It wants to shame anyone who doesn't have kids. It wants to undermine their legitimacy as full participants in political and I would even say cultural and civilizational life.
What does it mean to be pro-family? Is it to support people in finding the life path they want to walk, whether that's becoming a parent or not? That's more or less what Kamala Harris believes.
Or is it to use policy and culture to push people to have children? To reward them for having more children? To demean and even punish them for choosing to not have children? That's more or less what JD Vance and the people who have influenced him believe...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Elon Musk Accuses Kamala Harris Of Being An 'Extinctionist' | HuffPost Latest News
Musk accused the vice president of being anti-family in a pearl-clutching post on X over the weekend...
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Opinion | Attacking Kamala Harris for Not Having Kids Will Backfire - The New York Times
When JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, was running for Senate in 2021, he told Fox News's Tucker Carlson:
We're effectively run, in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. And it's just a basic fact, if you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, A.O.C. — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Why are Americans remaining childless? Surprisingly, it's not just time and money | TheHill
…[M]oney and time are not the only reasons many Americans intend to remain childless. The fear of what type of world their prospective children will face — be it with climate change, viruses such as COVID, or growing political unrest — keep at least some from taking the leap…https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/584349-why-are-americans-remaining-childless-surprisingly-its-not-just-time-and
Thursday, August 12, 2021
J. D. Vance's Attack on the 'Childless Left' - The Atlantic
… a political conversation that favors kids has to take children as its subject. This current discourse does not.
Instead, it's concerned with adults, and the decisions, personal or political, that cause them to opt into or out of parenthood. This much is especially clear in Vance's rhetoric, which identifies the "childless left" as the source of America's woes, and suggests meting out more votes to parents to right those putative wrongs. In Domenech's view, too, the trouble isn't so much that the left has lined up policies that demonstrably harm children, but that the adults of the left seem attitudinally opposed to fertility and parenthood. These people, one infers—single, Millennial dog mommies living in urban apartments and stumping for liberal causes—are the problem, and the solution is to disempower them in one way or another. That goal is primary; the kids and their needs are way downstream of the problematic adults and their proposed successors.
Sunday, August 1, 2021
No children, no vote: Fox News’s latest asinine suggestion
The brains trust at Fox News recently debated whether the 'childless left' deserve the vote – which shows that choosing not to have kids if still very much stigmatized..
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