> if parents don't guilt-trip their kids into reproducing, the children often just skip it

You have it inversed. Never has there been such anti-human so-called “green” propaganda in schools, media, so-called main stream culture.

Movies about “Climate crisis”, submitting penance to the church of larry fink, leonardo dicaprio, kpmg, wef to absolve the sin of breathing by buying financialized co2 tokens.

Fiat time theft making it more expensive to live in the city doesn’t help either.

No, it’s not. Sad, isn’t it😢? Most young adults just can’t afford to have kids nowadays, especially if they’re paying rent or a mortgage, student loans, income tax, etc. Hopefully, this trend will take an upturn not too long after the markets collapse and the reset button gets pressed. It’s one of the many reasons why I’m hoping the global market implodes ASAP. I mean, seriously, this bubble has been expanding for over 15 damn years 🙄😮‍💨. The sooner, the better.

Yeah, there’s also that. Parents these days love to promote independence (a.k.a. selfishness) in their kids. In my opinion, it’s just lazy parenting. But... that’s the new "in" narrative. Oh, well. Many of those parents will be disappointed when they’re old and wrinkly and have no crying babies to babysit.