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"I personally think that another influence lies in the bizarre modern ideology that insists that everything that people have always done is so much harder now, against all evidence." (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

submitted 4 months ago by zecg to c/stuffandsuch

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This seems to amount to: "My dad could support a family of 5 and own a home with no college education or trade skills while my mom stayed home but they had it harder because cell phones didn't exist."

[–] NeptuneOrbit 0 points 4 months ago

Having a kid used to be easy because few people had the emotional capacity to evaluate their success as parents. Or deal with the fallout.

Yeah it's certainly easy to blame skipping parenthood on global warming, but near with me for a second, the option of just accidentally having three kids by 25 wasn't really a stellar choice for anyone either.