- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
You must log in or register to comment.
Fortunately for the species, over 95% plan on having unprotected sex
I can’t imagine a lot of 40-year-olds are still planning to have kids so this number seems a little suspect to me.
Thanks for this, so I redid the math using the two youngest categories (up to 34 years old) and the % goes from 21% to 26% 🤷♂️
The light blue section doesn’t count towards either yes or no, right? Because it’s the “I don’t know” answer.
I was sitting here wondering how they came to 21% at all without only looking at the oldest category, and even then it’s only a fourth that would not get children.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t basic biology say that it gets more dangerous for people to have kids the older they are? Let alone the virility of men over 40.
It’s a risk to have a child at any age but the risk does raise as you get older scare tactics says it doubles and such after 40 but that doubling is like a 0.5% chance changing to a 1% chance. Adam ruins everything did a piece on this that explains it pretty well.
But, the answers do specify “have or raise” so adoption is also included.
the 35-44 year olds skew the data quite heavily. In that age it’s dangerous for women to have kids so over 50% of them saying no makes sense.
Maybe if they created an environment conducive to having kids, more people would have them. Failing and underfunded public education, increasingly expensive cost of childcare, lower standard of living. I could go on about climate and geopolitical uncertainty but you get the idea.
Only a fifth of Canadians younger than 50 plan on having kids
That’s sustainable as long as those 1 in 5 Canadians who do have a kid each have on average at least 10 kids.
The poll found 51% say it is “not their responsibility” to fund other people’s childcare, with the most likely group to say this are those who have raised children to the age of 18 or older, where the proportion rises to 59%.
While I’ve got sympathy for that position, the flip side of that is that it’s taxes from those kids who will be paying for pension, medical care, and so forth of people who don’t have kids.
So if you don’t want to pay for someone else’s kids, it does seem a bit unfair that their kids should pay for your old age. I mean, it required a lot of time and work and money on the part of people who did have kids to raise that kid.
The social welfare model in most countries, as things stand, is rather loaded against people who have kids.
That argument only works on people that believe they will live long enough to see those benefits, or experience them regardless of how long they do live.
In the US at least, there is no reason to believe anyone under 50 is going to “retire,” if they don’t already have the full funds to retire. Canada’s right wing parties desperately want to copy the US so they can get paid what US politicians get paid.
People PLAN to have kids? ;)
deleted by creator
I never understood how someone gets pregnant accidentally. I have 2 kids and both where very on purpose.
deleted by creator
Yeah you don’t want to get the girl pregnant you don’t cum in her pussy . It’s that easy I did it for many years .
If you see the world that simplistic, maybe you should have refrained from procreating.
Birth control can fail. Pills can be forgotten or interfere with other medications, IUDs can fall out unnoticed, condoms can break or slip off, etc.
If you have sex often enough, the chances of having birth control fail at some point creep up to 100%, and if you’re “lucky” that results in a pregnancy, and if the mother either has no access to abortions, or simply doesn’t want one, you have a child.
Unplanned doesn’t mean unwanted or unloved. Many people in principle would like a child but don’t know if now is the right time and this person is the right partner, but if random chance over, they’ll take that hint and become parents.
Seriously. Did “the condom broke” stop being an insult about why people exist?
My brother had 2 unplanned children using the pull out method. First time should have taught him it’s not an effective birth control, but it wasn’t until the second kid that he really accepted it.
So ummm I guess it’s not that easy for everyone lol
It’s likely this guy has a lower sperm count and doesn’t realize it. If it took him more than one month of trying, I am certain of it.
deleted by creator
In this economy you gotta wait until your 70s before you humour the thought of having children.
Besides, to match the government budgets we probably should hold off until we reach 1830s population numbers.
