To have or not to have? Children
Another thing I just thought about, on the parenting front, is that I know loads of 20somethings who are absolutely against having children, seeing how hard it is, how much struggle it takes to make it work. And it’s quite strange to think that people in some countries might stop having kids altogether????at the same time there are way too many people in the world hence we’ve got that duality here again. But I feel like exploring the idea of what it means to be a family and that maybe having kids is not the worst thing in the world…I don’t know, just throwing it out there
Because on that note I was just thinking about these Gen Z 20somethings and their decisions to not have kids and the main reason being that they’re just traumatized by the situation in the world: poverty, starvation, ecological crisis, all of that is afecting them mentally to the point of not wanting to bring another generation into this fucked up world. And I think that might be another thing worth adding. I’m in very close contact with a GEN Z girl, who lost her ndad tragically at 15 and her and her mum were left with loads of debt and are currently struggling financially. She is going through all this stuff at the moment believing whe will ever want to have children and I believe I could definitely find more people like that in London and in the UK and Europe in general, but that would probably require some serious research. Might need a research grant for that.