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Who of you want or don't want children? I am just curious because most people that I talk to don't seem to want it. I mean leftist (lemmy.ml)
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I am curious if the majority of leftist people don't actually want children haha. There doesn't seem to be any studies about it, but my convos with leftists is that most don't seem to want to have children either for the uncertainty of the future or because they are too expensive or because it wouldn't give them too much time to organize or whatever other reason that I forgot about.

I personally lean on not having children because I have been laid off of several jobs and having someone financially dependent to me scares the shit out of me and would put my stress levels through the roof.

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[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 18 hours ago

Part of me would have liked to have kids but given the material conditions of my life it would have likely ended up as a miserable story.

Early in my life my parents were taught the lesson of precarity under capitalism. I picked up the lesson and I could never shake it. As I came to working age I knew that no matter how hard I worked chances were good that everything I had built up would be dashed away. I could see that there was no way I (or most most millennials without generational wealth) would ever own a home. My future was quite obviously to work hard so landlords, capitalists and petti bourgeoise could live comfortable lives. I didn't put it in these terms at the time but wrecking my mental and physical health supporting the rich and producing one or more future laborers for capitalism to exploit seemed stupid. Instead I did personal austerity and worked as little as possible.

The only way to minimise your losses when you are forced to play a rigged game is to play as little as possible.

My lady never wanted kids for her own reasons and that's fine with me.