Birthgap - Childless World PART 1 (English Version) 

Yes they sadly are still teaching overpopulation without realizing a new era has begun. I'd be happy for your daughter's teacher to show the documentary in their class.... We are producing an Educator Pack to assist with Q&A afterwards.

Nothing will be done about this demographic collapse until financial capitalism and rent seekers are destroyed once and for all.

Scarlett Intelligent people don't go into teaching in the USA because the system is dysfunctional and the pay is terrible. Unfortunately, the profession attracts low IQ radical liberals.

I remember when there were kids and teenagers everywhere. Now there are just old people everywhere. It’s also kinda weird to hear how these people feel like everything has to be planned and perfect and they can’t make up their minds when, where or how to fit in a child. But if I were young in the USA Today I wouldn’t become pregnant. The USA is extremely anti-family anti-healthcare, anti-children and anti-pregnancy. It can be live threatening to become pregnant in the USA. Women are also given a designated cesarian date and don’t even get to choose to have natural birth. The whole thing is completely absurd. Everything has to be planned. Although it may be happening for different reasons, I think there could be a balancing act.

Pity for the other kids. Shame on the teacher

Mmm, there's a lot more t*h*ere. I agree, motherhood is disregarded in much of society. In terms of relationship stability we do not have a society th*a*t supports relationships in any regards to anyone. Our society is now based upon *_"How much money can we make as much as possible in order to have more money than I need so that I will never not have enough._* Not, to actually being human and interacting with each other to make as many good relationships a possible. We'*v*e made it so that we have to ACTUALLY not interact with one another besides work in order do anything we would want. No on*e* wants to have a kid that will have to quite literally do the same things as we are already doing in order to exist for infinitum. *C*ivilization is supposed to get better. It's not getting better it's derailing.

We have a day set aside for or that celebrates mothers. "Mother's Day".

@@Eric-ej3oy That's funny. Single mothers are still being ostracized, married mothers are not given assistance. "Mother's Day" is as relevant as Christmas - doesn't really do anything but give more trash for the mothers to clean up. Unpaid cleaning, mind you, unpaid cleaning whereas a cleaner is paid at least 23 AUD per hour. Unpaid and ridiculed for being useless.

​@@batelshimoni1078savage and accurate takedown of mother's day. I'm a mother of 8. Mother's day means nothing to me.

Feminism turned motherhood into a slur. Feminism forced all of us to work more for less by doubling the workforce for the same number of jobs Environmentalists push the idea that "humans should not have kids" to...save the planet. And on and on and ON!

They can’t. We’re too greedy. If wages rose enough that we could afford a large family on one wage, we”d still have two wages a bigger house, more cars and more social media presence. The planet is imposing its own balance on us once again.

It's a myth. Your parents likely worked way harder than people do today.

Hi mate, not going to happen. There was less taxation back then, houses were more affordable etc. Basically its way more expensive now.

This is the whole problem. You need two incomes to raise a family. It’s hard to just pay for yourself let alone a child. I wanted children but I never found someone to have them with and I don’t want to be a single mother. It’s very sad.

To do that people need to go Vegan since most of the resources food, fuel, water and land is going to raise farm animals that is the real reason and beside meat, dairy and eggs destroy human health that cause also wasting resorces to treatment of preventable deseases

It's not about the money. Children grow up poor the world over, but still grow up. They don't know any better. The problem is Western values has miseducated people to believe children need to be provided ANYTHING they desire, and that parents need to raise them as if they were little prince and princesses.

maybe you don't understand that hideous people want us to procreate because they need future slaves to exploit and underpay Reply

⁠@@adaeptzulander2928no. Society as a whole has become unsustainable. No one can grows their own food anymore. No one can build their own homes. Inflation is increasing and wages are not. Nothing can even be provided in the first place, and if they can, it’s because 70% of the waking day is spent working to fill another’s pockets. There will be no time to raise kids

​@@adaeptzulander2928wrong, kids grow up in impoverished places all around the world because of a lack of education and family planning. My financial situation is such that I could not recreate the childhood I had for my imaginary kids now. People simply cannot afford kids in this economy. We work as hard as we do just to keep afloat and live with dignity. I'm not having kids to force all of us to struggle. I for one, have seen enough struggle in childhood, I'm not the slightest bit inclined to continue such a pattern. That has to be respected as it's the responsible and sensible thing to do.

@@marianatristao6526 Seems like all your education has simply indoctrinated you to be selfish and anti-family.

Well it's simple, you can't worship endless materialism and brainless entertainment and hope to keep a society together.

Having children is largely incompatible with a satisfying modern life which involves lots of sexual partners, education, career, travel, hedonism, and material goods. And there's no real easy way to make those things compatible.

Every industrialized country suffers from financial capitalism and rent seeking.

On the one hand that's true, but also no one would want to live in a non-industrialized country since people there are barely scraping by and are vulnerable to war, disease, and famine. The birth gap crisis is a crisis of luxury and of excess technology and of people chasing job titles first over family and spirituality.

@@friedawells6860 I agree. Everything always has pros and cons, trade-offs, a balance. Even if not apparent in the immediate, whatever is lost in the pursuit of some gain, will become apparent over time. There's no perfect way of living, being, feeling, etc.

I often wonder this as well. Like how many people are self selecting out because of bad childhoods.

exactly well said

Promiscuity and substance abuse were propagandized starting in the 70s. None of this is accidental.

I had a single mother and she was amazing. BUT she still had to sacrifice so much. And I decided that the struggle was too hard. I could not raise kids on my income without so much stress that the kids would suffer.

What an entirely devastating story and perfect illustration of society's attitude toward the family unit.

That’s a complete lie!

Nah… I know people who have big house, 3-5 rooms yet do not have children. It’s just wife and husband enjoying life 🙂. I feel it’s a personal choice these days. I’m currently pregnant and still living in apartment. My partner and I married late and started our life a bit late cause we weren’t sure what we were doing in our earlier years. But never late than never! Idk some people call me irresponsible though because I don’t have big home; yet they idealize people who have big homes yet no kids. Kids aren’t as valued these days; they’re considered a burden

Exactly- the boomers screwed the younger generations and now wonder why no one’s breeding. They bought a house for $1k and mum stayed at home. So there’s a gap right there.

WE ARE TIRED, WE ARE ANGRY, WE ARE READY TO TOPPLE THE BOOMERS AND T-A-K-E WHAT YOU WONT SHARE!!!! The ONLY reason I don't have kids is because i was tought from a young age that RESPONSIBLE people do the following: 1- Get a good job 2- Buy a house 3- Start a family Now 41 and still havn't been able to accomplish step#2... so yeah, no kids. (No I don't want to give the RESPONSIBILITY of raising MY children to my parents/babysitter while my wife and I are at work) The Boomers plan was: Spend everything, print more fiat, buy ALL the houses like they are stocks, force the youth to pay our retirements.

You left out the controlled mainstream media and corporate media - the real culprits.

Precisely! And personally, I'm a father of 2 (still) young boys, and that is something that my wife and I had discussed pretty right away when we decided to start our family. "Luckily", we were both on the same wavelenght and agreed, and understood, that what we sometime call "the King child" in our corner of the world, would make us probably unhappy and ever chasing a perfect image that doesn't exist. And might disintegrate us in the end. We discussed and agreed that only both our individual happiness, and as a couple, could make us good and viable parents. Hard to make happy kids with sad disfunctional parents... So we've compromised all the way, a tad towards the kids still, it's the era (and because of our unending for love them too ofc), but we never lost sight of ourselves. That there should be space and time for ouselves too, that our lives should not be entirely and solely governed by the needs of the children. And I mean the morden "needs", beyond love, safety, food, warmth, stimuli, kindness, etc. There has been time when we said, no kiddos, we're gonna do this, we're gonna go there or we're gonna do it this way. Yes, even if you two adorable little monkeys are unsatisfied with it. And explained to them kindly that mummy and daddy also have to be happy to be good parents. I think they always understood. And I'd say it's proven to be for the best so far. So yeah, I believe you're right about that aspect of nowadays parenting, the social image of perfection that is ingraned in us and expected from parents, has completely unnatural expectations, often unrealistic, and so often counterproductive in the end. Especially to young parents, already naturally terrified at the prospect of being responsible for a little life. And this is one more huge incentive not to have children I'm sure, or at least to be scared engouh to delay it for ever longer, anf for ever more people it seems. Add economical stress, polution, news echo chambers about extreme safety atmosphere/incident issues, loss of hopes in the future and politics and governance, rampent poverty and the discusting distribution of wealth... and so many other stressful factors.... well this ain't the spirit of the 50's for sure.... Sad, but real. God I'm glad and thankfull for my family and my children. I know I would have died a lonely, grumpy and sad old man otherwise ^_^ Love. Be kind! Cheers

@@goergeskaplan2910my parents raised us this way and now as grown adults who are all married, we are grateful they had that foresight. I always knew “mom came first to dad and dad came firs to mom” it made me secure. I remember one incident where my brother and I were teenagers arguing with our mom and my dad said “ you will not argue with my wife in my house”. It reminded me that she’s more than “just” my mom, she is also “his wife” and she was his wife long before she became my mom, and as much as in my mind I could argue with “my mom” arguing with “his wife” is unacceptable 😂. So i believe your children will not only appreciate your approach, but it is the best way of setting them up for success. You and your wife are the foundation holding the whole family together, and a strong foundation ensures that the house will always be safe.

💯 our lives revolve around trying to make sure our kids are always having fun

This is why the French way of rearing children is the best.

Love this comment XD I've heard that Hungary is contemplating a policy of no income tax for families with 4 or more children

@@friedawells6860 well, they'll need such😂. Expensive household

Shocking isn’t it 😂 Antinatalsim ❤

Bingo

Yes, people have gone on strike the only way they can. I love joking "Have children, the people on the top of the Ponzi scheme need more people on the bottom to exploit."

lmao

Thata how I got here too

same here!

Love it!

Nailed it!

Workisim=Capitalisim

​@@Silver77cyn Should we apply Communism then?

@@MrSandman_0981 Nope.

@@Silver77cynNice well rounded argument. Just stellar

People seeking financial freedom while being enslaved to their jobs.

But that is not what he has shown. It is when people don't plan ahead to have the kids they want that things go wrong.

​@@stephenhoughton632My daughter was born exactly 1 week after my 18th birthday (1996)... She was not planned. Her father and I had been dating for several years, and we decided to get married. Neither of us went to college, both of us have GEDs. He worked and I stayed home, it didn't make financial sense for me to work because childcare would have eaten up my entire paycheck at the time. I found ways to earn extra money at home. I began selling cakes and baked goods.😊 By the age of 21 we were able to buy our first house. At 25 we started our own event planning and catering business. Our daughter is now 27. She is a college graduate with a Bio/ Chemistry degree, married, and they just bought their first home last year. Your priorities become your reality... There will never be an ideal time in life to have children. You can make all of the plans you want, but life rarely goes in accordance to plans, so you have to understand how to be flexible and make the best of every situation you find yourself in. Some of the best things in life are the things you never planned on.

Did he really say that? Is there a source for that quote?

@@yurigansmith The Decline of the West Volume 2, Knopf edition, page 104. (Oh, and yes, he really said that.)

Incredible

Same! Way to go Redacted!

Lol me too!!! Amazing

Me too 😊

Same here!😂

Me too

That is good example inductive fallacy. This has nothing to do with economic system. It has clear correlation with means of production. When your means of production are primitive, you can increase your personal production by using children as non paid labor. So one have beneficial midterm invesment, that starts to give results after 6 or 7 years. When you have sophicticated means of production, you have very long term invesment. Until your invesment did not start paying back, it is all cost to you. Majority of humans are not very good with long term investments, our brain does not work this way. So, you have depopulation in all economic systems, as long as means of production advanced, so one can not use his kids as labor.

​@@abupinhusproduction is bullshit anyways. We produce more now than any other time in history and are supposedly better off than ever before. But all we have to show for it is a metric shitload of overpriced garbage that's supposed to distract us from how shit it is we have work in other men's castles. Shit's a scam.

​@abupinhus so you have taken the elitist view, make babies to have them serve your 'system' mindset. Another thought could be that children bring joy by their sense of wonder. Children can encourage someone to be a better person and want to sacrifice and share. They actually help make familial bonds, both immediate and extended, and build communities. Children grow up and leave. They are only a good long-term investment if they are part of a monetary system, where you get a very small percentage of that child's production.

Not true it's all about status. In America right now we have African immigrants who take fast food jobs and raise a family in apartments. Americans are just spoiled and want the best of everything all the time

Yes, I would agree - all of the above and I could add a few more. Our environment is toxic and that's not taking into account the social engineering we've been subjected to.

Yes, hormone disrupting chemicals and toxins; phyto and xeno-estrogens, in everything from cosmetic products to refined sugar.

That's interesting, because I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure/ perimenopause at age 28. I have never been on the pill/had an IUD, no smoking or drinking, nor gotten the C va×, & I eat pretty healthy,. By God's grace, my husband and I were still able to have children, but it does seem so odd that so many are struggling with this. We invested in a good quality water filter because I don't trust anything, but when there's no apparent cause it's very frustrating.

I heard that premature menopause simply comes from not having become pregnant. The body was like "I don't need this anyway", like a shop owner closes early when no one came during the day.

@@SYA357 I'm sure that could be the case for many, but personally, that's not why I have it. I got married at 20 and we wanted to start our family right away. I had my first baby 2 weeks before my 22nd birthday, had my second baby at age 24, & third at 26. I also had some chemical pregnancies between, which I believe were one of the early signs.. So it's just frustrating to not have answers or a reason.

The western culture's obssession over 'self-reliance' is really bonkers. It really does take a village to raise children. But somehow, here in the west, we keep telling ourselves and each other that we gotta do everything on our own or else we'd be seen as a 'burden' to family. The whole mentality of 'get out of the house once you turn 18' is so messed up tbh.

Precisely. It’s crazy in every way. Currently the couple move away from parents and the parents are left to live lonely and depressed lives as they grow old and helpless. The couple take up a place in some city for work, have kids whom they’ll have to raise alone or pay expensive daycare to look after, while having full-time jobs. Finally the parents live alone and depressed, the couple is burnt out raising kids on their own, and the kids grow up with parents who barely have time for them, and they don’t receive the love and wisdom from grandparents who are yearning to give it to them. Grandparents lose children and grandchildren, children lose the support and help of parents, the grandchildren grow up without guidance or the care and wisdom of grandparents. Everyone loses. This has probably never happened in human history at this scale. I think it’s got to do with the education system. We’re educated for jobs that are mostly available only in cities and so are forced to move away, creating the above cycle. If this doesn’t change we’re all doomed. We need to plan to get out of this mad, senseless cycle that’s clearly changing the course of the human race for the worse.

I’d like to add- lazy boomer parents that show no help or support as being grandparents. This makes situations on young couples harder to financially support themselves and be parents without the support from grandparents

Point 3 is why the 'nuclear family' was the start of the problem.

That’s very true.. which probably connects to opting for jobs in cities (one reason being the “big city” dreams that’s been shown in movies for the past many decades?), a consumeristic mindset that can be funded only by city jobs, the Education system that basically provides skills only for jobs available in cities. All leading to moving to cities, away from joint families, increasing the burden of raising children, increased cost of living, etc Couple that with the general individualistic attitude that’s encouraged as “cool”, and war between sexes (ultimately leading to loneliness), and it’s a perfect recipe for population collapse.

The journey of a thousand miles...

I mean....apartments and other housing situations exist.... you don't HAVE to be a home owner to provide shelter for your children. And before you say anything about high rent, In America at least there are programs for first time home buyers that allow people who would otherwise never be able to buy a home, be able to get a home and get approved for a loan with an interest rate as little as 5 percent. Other initiatives and programs may even buy the property outright for you, and then just set up a direct loan where you just repay them directly every month with little or even no added interest!! There are ways to do it!!! People need to STOP using homeownership as an excuse for not having at least one to two children.

@@Eph5wife4life That's just bullshit. There is a difference between being able to physically own a home and being a serf just paying back interest on a loan where you never accumulate any financial security through paying the principal. The issue is not the home in and of itself (or even apartment if you want to go there), it's the financial security. Even if every young person alive were given homes, most of them wouldn't even be able to afford living in them.Try having a 15k$ repair on a home with a monthly take home pay after expenses of 500$... that's 30 months of paying back without accounting for interests or other expensive life events!!! The real issue is that for years incomes have been stagnant and regressing in purchasing power to afford the salaries of old people, their entitlement programs and their housing ponzi schemes. Housing affordability is just a symptom of this. When people say they can't afford a home, they are saying more than just ''homes are expensive'', they are implying ''everything else is expensive'', they are implying ''my salary is too low to cover living expenses even if I buy a house'' and they are implying the money is somewhere else if it's not in their pockets.

@@Cocoisagordonsetter The difference between having kids and a teepee and having them in an apartment is that you don't have a fiancial obligation by living in a teepee... while living in an apartment implies you have a landlord asking for rent and if they are anywhere near the average (or even below), the rent they are asking is extortion and that means there is no money left at the end of the month to pay for another person's food, clothing, additional room, education and transport, let alone entertainment.

@@Cocoisagordonsetter Let's clear some things up here : -I've been happy with my current partner for close to 2 years now and we both frequently talk about having children and marrying and we both have been wanting children for as long as we can remember. Better luck next time on that one. -I've been living in a metropolitan city where I am for a couple years out of necessity for studying in my engineering field. I have been despising this lifestyle for about as long as I got here and I have been looking everyday at opportunities to leave to a more rural/suburban town since I graduated. Nowhere in your weirdest dreams would I even come close to having an urban mindset and neither does my partner. -Housing is not better in rural/suburban areas where I live. The housing market in Canada is on the brink of collapse pretty much everywhere in roughly proportionnal measures for sitting on the biggest housing bubble of history. By all measures, we should be starting to see panic selling any month now when the refinancing wave starts hitting people with double their montly payments for sitting on a house overpriced by 100% when they bought during the pandemic at near 0% interest rates. Here is my 2 cents : -Living in a teepee is hippy shit you can't really easily pull off anymore if you have anywhere near the average level of societal obligations. I can't suddenly leave everything I have and go build my own home in the woods and have 5 children. First of all, it would be irresponsible to raise them isolated in a way preventing them from interacting with the broader world and understanding the ways of society. Second of all, it would be irresponsible to leave our famillies. Finally, it would just make no sense with my current way of life for many more subtle reasons. -In the end, I am simply not going to have children under a financial situation where they are guaranteed to fail either and no rational person should be expected to. I have my own plan going forward and I will most likely be fine myself in the long term with my own family, but if we want to solve the demographic bomb for everyone (not just my personal above average situation that is just threading along somewhat fine by lucky circumstances), the economy is what we need to fix, not the rational choices people make as a result. Old people need to stop expecting the world to be given to them by the younger generation and pension/healthcare systems should simply be abolished as they are for being pure financial drains and ponzi schemes on the younger adults to profit the old. The young adults mathematically will not even have the money to pay into it enough to keep it running anyway in a matter of 5-10 years because of the lack of adults coming of age... There's only so much that can be accomplished on public debt denominated in currencies that are printed and losing value by the hour above 100% public debt/GDP ratios.

That's nice in theory and it used to be the norm, BUT it doesn't acknowledge that feminism encourages the delay or abstinence of starting a family and openly disparages the life choice of motherhood.

@@RCCarDude You want to blame Feminism, others blame religion or not enough religion, others blame patriarchy or pro-choice or porn and video games distracting men.... I'm sure they're all factors to some extent but they're all irrelevant in regard to what Grandparents can do to influence their own young adult daughters and sons.

This makes me think of the number of older siblings who choose to be childfree because their parents forced them to raise younger siblings.

When I look at my young children (who often tell me how much they want to be mommies and daddies one day), this is exactly what I know my husband and I will want to do for them. We were exceedingly lucky to find each other young, become well educated, and he entered a very lucrative field. So when we were in our late 20s, I could stay home with our babies and we could afford to hire help, since none of our family lived nearby to help us. We have been very lucky and I worry that our children will need much more help if they are going to have families of their own one day.

@@tonkashouse I don't want to "blame" feminism but I definitely understand why you could read my comment that way. I should have been more clear: feminism has basically won the culture war and because of that any shift in culture away from female individualism will be seen as a shot across the bow at feminism.

After 7 or 8 generations, nature begins to heal. Our living planet remains a living planet. The end of reproductive greed is our best chance for long term survival.

And not fight for jobs that pay enough to survive and have families

This is the only sane comments I've seen so far. 😄

Wrong, automation will take the jobs, populations will centralises into cities and the prices will remain high, if not highest ever as location will be everything.

Are you homeless? You can’t afford a place to live but have the luxury of an iPhone to post this comment?

Look at rural Japan. Abandoned wooden houses for $10k.

Don’t pay for childcare! Look for a husband who makes good money and take care of your child yourself!!

I don't expect my children to take care of me, and any parent who does is wrong.

@@CharlotteMEllett when your parents make you a caregiver for your siblings at a young age, you’re not thinking about adding another mouth to feed or an additional bill to pay because you never had a choice. Btw… caring for your elders is the right choice.

@@piedradesechadaIt is far smarter for a woman to go out and make her own good money as there is a clear, documented historical pattern of the negative prospects that go along with women being financially dependent on a man. You are safer to just adopt as a high earning single woman or freeze your eggs and attempt motherhood once you’ve become established on your own. But encouraging young women to be broke dependents is encouraging them to be idiots.

We have 4 kids too & we lived a relatively poor & simple life as well. That has never bothered us. One of our grandchildren is soon to be the father of 3 - good for him.

You are far richer for having them.

maybe you couldn't "afford" it. but you did it anyway and you're all alive. We act as if financial success and even stability is the primary goal in life when so many of our ancestors could never dream of the economic positions we hold today, globally...

I married late, by the time we felt we could afford children I was in my late 30s. I was very lucky. I lost the first. Then had my first son. Was told not to have anymore as it was a health risk. But I took the risk and had a second. I never thought about the cost of raising children. We were poor but had a roof over our heads, food, and clothes. We didn't take big vacations. Both boys went to college and one got a masters. Yes, I'm still poor by a lot of people's standards. I stayed home with them till they were in their mid teens. Best job I ever had.

You can never "afford to have children." Regardless of your lifestyle, your money will have to go farther. If your idea of a night out is Denny's, you'll be replacing that with McDonald's. If you get a new car every year and totally upgrade your wardrobe seasonally and redecorate your house every time trends change, you'll still have to cut back on things you've come to think of as "necessities." So if you "wait until you can afford kids" you'll never have them. You just have to have them and find your joy in them, not in material goods.

For you maybe. For other (many) people only having kids is not enough

@@HelloKitty-kb7ji many people are selfish

Assuming you have a husband to help you. I agree with you 💯. It is exhausting especially when a single parent must raise the children alone and find the means to support them alone. Motherhood should be valued more in society.

@@bumblebee8653 Hehe your username made me giggle for obvious reasons (it's cute). But yes I agree with you, Motherhood and Fatherhood MUST be valued more by society.

@@HelloKitty-kb7ji he did not say that 'only having kid' is enough. By his words you can see that he values both, family and career success but his kids give him the most joy.

This is so true

Or let in more migrants

So repeal the 19th ammendment then? Because that's the only way this is undone

They reward families with cash incentives for each child they have in Russia.

Well in the US there is not maternity paid leave they call that socialism

Make your own future. Are you really so helpless?

@@MyBelch don't deal with society?

Is it possible your expectations are too high? When in history have average people had more security than today?

@@MyBelchwe are making our own future. Without kids. 😂😂😂 #BreedYourOwnWorkers

Not stoping the Africans. Isn't that strange? Why is the mentality of non-African women so different?

😅😂keep waiting for your good man, you might find him before the age of 60

Women only care about men being attractive. If you're not attractive you don't exist.

@@4chukwuebuka waiting?? 😂no. There is no a good man

@@rose-yeah 😕 so no 60 years old woman marriage?

Blablabla typical women babbling. You and your friends probalby already rejected hundreds of good men because he was too boring or whatever. And being a housewife today is a total cakewalk copared to 60 years ago. Keep crying and have fun with your cats drama queen.

Thanks for this. I so much needed to hear this

Wow very inspiring! Do you have any extra advice for someone who would want to live like you? My fiance and I are starting out our journey together this year. We are both 25 and desiring to have a godly marriage.

@@divinedela9125 I'm so happy to hear this! It really can be done!

@@friedawells6860 Really? Wonderful! We have found that God's ways are good and can be trusted even when it feels impossible or just too hard. Godliness with contentment IS great gain! Blessings to you both as you start your adventure together😘

@Walking Right Here Thank you so much! I'll take that to heart. God has already done many wonderful things in my life including bringing my fiancé, Jacco, into it. I really believe that His ways are the best. Please pray for us ❤️

Views have quadrupled since I was on your Modern Wisdom podcast 2 weeks ago. Thank you Chris!

Chris, it's Your "fault" I found out about this documentary! Thank You!

Just watched both shows back to back. You're all getting lost on 'why are women choosing to have fewer kids?', when the answer is in the question. Choice. Because they have a choice now. And having kids is scary, so given the choice a lot will avoid it. Women are choosing to have fewer kids because they can *choose* and it happens everywhere you give them more choice/options. The result of diluting the options you have from one to two is that it's a zero sum game. Choice will reduce the birth-rate by exactly the number of women who choose not to have kids. Choice is the problem here. Women didn't used to have these choices. That's what has changed. The birthrate drop does coincide with options increasing for women.

I wouldn't call choice the problem. It's the mechanism, sure. The actual problem is discouraging the choice. Looking down at motherhood and family life. A failure to make up for the village we humans once had to help raise a child. In that environment, not many want to choose for a family.

@@DennisNeijmeijer But isn't that the point? What has 'changed' to cause birth rates to go down? You can't really fix it if the cause was giving ppl choice. And choice will cause a massive drop off in the birth rate. All the ppl who choose to not have kids represent fewer kids than would have been born without that choice. Binary choices are zero sum, so the choice must necessarily reduce the birth rate by everyone who makes that choice. I'm not saying ppl should be unwilling parents. I'm just pointing out that no one feels ready for kids really, so when it happens most ppl are terrified, even when it's planned. Throughout history we just got through that fear and ended up glad we had kids. Now a lot of people are chickening out when nature tries to force their hand, then it never comes at the 'right time' because there really isn't a right time & you're never ready.

Total Rubbish ! A whole lot of people hard a harder life than YOU years ago and they all managed to fit it into their daily lives. Some went to war for years, some had to do shift work, some did overtime or created a business, which is hard work. Excuses, excuses; make time and make it work for you and your kids.

It's not rubbish. We see what happens to children born in even harsher times/environment. They suffer a lot. Lots of violence or starvation. Child labor too. Exteme poverty means children work full time jobs in sweat shops or even partake in prostitution for a bit of food. ​@@linmal2242

@@linmal2242 These people had no choice. Women got pregnant and they had another mouth to feed. A hard life I wouldn't choose. And now we can choose.

@@linmal2242Previous generations are also known for dysfunction, domestic violence (🤢), poor mental health, child labor (🤮), substance dependence, and really just uncivilized “values” in general. As a millennial, there really is nothing about the culture associated with Gen X’ers and Baby boomers, or any other generation that I would describe as commendable or respectable. Just bc people were more likely to get and stay married does not mean they were high quality parents in healthy marriages. The biggest difference between then and now is that 1) back then people didn’t actually care about children, their well-being or opportunities. Procreation was always thoughtless and self-centered for most ppl whereas now, people are more likely to actually think about their reproductive choices and make decisions relative to their capacity to provide a quality, optimal life for children since that’s what they deserve. 2) Women really didn’t have a lot of options and 3) people of both sexes in general had fewer employment options. That’s all changed now though bc many more people have options that allow them to deviate from chaos and struggle. So that’s what we do. You mad?

@@Shaa-Belle Awesome. I've lived the life I always wanted.

I'm a 35 year old woman and I feel the same way. I am a teacher and enjoy working with kids, but parenting isn't for me. I also don't want to bring children into an increasingly troubled world. I see the argument that population decline can be a problem within our given economic systems but I think overall it's a positive. We need to live more simple, quality lives. Musk and electric cars are not a solution to the environmental crisis. Fewer people living less modern lives is. I hope wildlife will regain habitats.

@@user-sm7pm1df3e For you to answer that it means that, or you still didn't understand, or you actively WANT humanity to desapear from the planet. It isn't just a matter of "Oh it will remain a happy bunch, living in peace with cows and chickens." No. To colapse, it means, we will vanish. For good. If you are ok with that, you are more indoctrinate than you might think. And that would just prove more the point of the video. And you have 35. Wait to reach to 45. It will get lonely pretty fast and pretty hard. Just listen to the older woman of the video. They are not happy. They are very sad and regretted. And you think you will be different? You will not. Sadly, you will read all I'm saying here and think you are still right.

@@user-sm7pm1df3e the more you age the worse it will become

Good for you :] As long as you are happy.

Having children is largely incompatible with a satisfying modern life which involves lots of sexual partners, education, career, travel, hedonism, and material goods. And there's no real easy way to make those things compatible.

@@someonesomeone25 brain dead take. Its about money and security for the children created

@@whyaminotoriginal I disagree.

Social media has ruined women's minds. Statistics gleaned from dating websites verify that 80% of women are chasing 20% of the men.

It's a trap because i doubt many people become what they consider finantially stable enough to have children, which actually means belonging to the upper middle class, something that it's very very hard in my country and many others

Go carnivore. Then try. Youll get pregnant within months. You're welcome.

You should have had children 15 years ago. Society is messed up.

Hey I read your story and felt like responding by chance. I am a herbalist and health practitioner. Have you tried and natural methods?

Before you have a child consider the world they'll be living in. Climate change is going to destroy everything. And your child won't want to have children.

Adoption?? Both my late husband and my father were adopted.

;)

Single mothers are the worst burden on society... Statistically.

@@user-rj2zm7ub2k 💯!! Single motherhood is a direct result of poor decision making… leaving the gov’t and tax payer dollars to pick up the slack 😕

So FUNNY, to insult fathers as 2nd class parents, hilarious! Oh wait, where did all the good men go? Far away from people like you, and even from 'fatherhood', as that's become a sick joke now, if not a crime men are punished for. Now scroll up and watch the video again, then keep laughing.

Rockefeller agenda

Lol, try being a woman. Misogyny is everwhere.

I am a 22 year old women. 99,9% of men tteat me like an Objekt. But somehow expect I treat them friendly. The math doesn't math

5B. I actively avoid men. I have a very active social life, women are way more interested in community than men.

It's a propaganda by crony capitalist like Elon Musk, they just want more slaves workers and consumers for their company

It’s impossible to do without two incomes and every woman knows that the likelihood of divorce is 50% so it will be on her. Yes, some men are asked to pay child maintenance in divorce and most who are required to do, but many simply walk, or refuse to work, and it becomes a huge problem. So that 50% divorce rate makes children quite a gamble.

This is the other side of the equation. Those having children are driven by emotion which increases societal instability.

presumably you can find cheap rent if you move out of the city. it seems you are instead pursuing career over children.

@@sw6118 lol women are the ones who initiate divorce

Oh my thoughts exactly ❤

Well it could be argued that you are depriving that child of its choice of what to do in life. It’s not a certainty that it will be a cog or anything in particular that we can predict

That is not what the evidence showes.

@@stephenhoughton632 We don't need evidence to see this. Just look around and ask old relatives. My grandpa worked alone as a teacher and was able to raise 3 children and build a house. My father and my mother both had to work fulltime, but still they build a house, payed back the loan in 8 years and had my sister and myself. I am a registered nurse now and I live in a 400 sqft (37 sqm) flat that I bought with a loan and I can't go on vacation to any other countries besides than poor states and I can't sustain a family alone. I am certain that I will have at least 1 child, regardless of my financial situation, because I really want children, but in no world I can support a huge family.

One of the reasons yes, other factors like a fertility issues as well. I’m lucky enough to have a child and plan on two more if I can, but two of my friends have been trying and can’t get pregnant. They are told it’s “unknown infertility” meaning there’s nothing the dr can see that’s causing it. Here in the USA I’m of the mind that our very processed and fast food diet has some thing to do with it, along with birth control pills being taken for 20 years straight.

@@BloodSweatandFears that as well. But there is an assumption that feminism and childfree people are to blame. The reality is that most people want children, but they're growing up slower because they can't establish roots and the cost of living is too high. Then you also have health problems causing infertility

@@biancap1549 I think both of those is true. And to be clear I mean modern feminism not real feminism. Out of many people I know more than half have chosen not to have kids or cannot find a partner for various reasons. One being social media and online dating being a bad dynamic that in my opinion is ruining dating and trust. 2 of my female friends want children but have fertility they attribute to being on hormonal birth control for 15 years straight. It’s a lot to unpack for sure lol

You forgot the pill and tampons.

Yes, improvements in mass production were supposed to enable 4 day work weeks while providing us with all we need. Instead, more of the profitability of automation went to the people at the top, meaning the rest of us work even harder. We just work harder with more efficient equipment so the bigshots can buy bigger yachts. If regular people were seeing the upside in advanced automation, we might have enough time and money to do a great job of raising kids, if that is what we all desired.

@@skylinefever to be frank, its not just the bigshots who benefit from men's overwork but "liberated women". They account for 70+% of consumption in the USA and produce nothing. Including babies.

Easy to see that fear keeps women from having children; fear of being trapped, overwhelmed, losing their identity. I am here to tell you that your fears will come true..but only in small doses and it is far outweighed by the joy and deep love and satisfaction you have because of your children.

​@@ronmaest Tampons don't affect fertility. It make more sense to say women entering the workforce affected these numbers more so. So now they keep delaying child birth. However they have the freedom to decide, and mostly they never find the *perfect* guy so they eventually settle and when they do ofcourse its too late. Its a lovely thing how mothernature always wins.

I'm not indian so I can't speak to your position exactly. I did have generational trauma though that put me off having kids originally. Having a kid and raising them the way I wanted to be is the best thing I've ever done with my life, you have to be strong to put a stop to passing on the trauma. This is probably a lot easier when you gave your own house though ❤

❤true. Your own home is key. It is not a popular idea, but in Japan they have this term 'vanishing' it removes elder care. Move away. As a parent I insist that the young enjoy their lives, have children if you wish. Stop caring for elders. Govt. Needs to remove insurance companies from the equation. If we have a health system everyone pays into, instead of giving it to Insurance companies which charge exhorbitant premiums, there would be plenty of money for elder care freeing up All People from elder care! Yes, I want my family free of that when my time comes, i love them that much. So I encourage the young to move away but write a letter, send a card or a small b-day gift.😊

@@Cocoisagordonsetter What? That is exactly what she is trying to get away from!! She is not chasing an education just for the purpose of being 'valuable' and meeting a higher quality man. Geez!! Her life is not about that at all. Her life should be lived as she likes. Not to marry. Not to increase her value in society. Not to have kids. She wants to be free to make her own choices! And your comment is completely opposite of what she is trying to say. She doesn't want that.

A good reason to have children is too keep your family lineage going. Also to keep the human race alive. If everyone stops having children we will eventually become extinct. If you don’t like your traditional Indian values or lifestyle then maybe you can marry a foreigner. Maybe you can move to a different country. You can marry an American or whoever and move away. Build the life you want somewhere else. Have children. Children can change your life and views about life. Unconditional love for your children. They are a blessing ❤️

The problem is patriarchy and new patriarchial norms. Men being useless in the home is not new. Nuclear families/girls leaving to live with inlaws is. It's a hard choice for every woman in every country for different variants if the points you made. Historically men would rape to get the children they wanted but before that, women would live together and help each other. If you can leave the country or go to more progressive cities that's your best bet. But your fears of the future based on your real life experiences are reasonable. You'll have to chose which road to take. Both will be hard but at 20 something you have lots of time. Geriatric pregnancy doesn't start till 42 and if you still have periods you are still technically fertile.

Yet we can't make all 8 billion people have the same kind of lifestyle and amount of wealth right? perhaps this population drop is really necessary, it just has not come up to Southeast Asia or Africa until now. Stabilize it to around 4 billion and I bet everyone lives abundantly.

Can you post a source?

@@gutsblackswordsman4707exactly. Supply and demand. When the Forrest becomes overgrown, a fire clears out the excess to make room for new growth. These cycles are observable everywhere in nature. Yet, we humans, in all of our arrogance, think we’re above the cycle. Silly humans.

Cap.

@@gutsblackswordsman4707 thanos is that you?

Thank you for your kind words. Glad you enjoyed it.

@@birthgap I disagree that low birth rates have no cause across societies. I'd say the cause would be liberalism as apposed religious patriarchy -- with all the other things that come with liberalism, feminism, pluralism etc. All the nations that have low or tending to lower birth rates have liberal economic models and slowly but surely liberal cultural norms. Saudi Arabia is now becoming more liberal after nearly a 100 years of religious tandem rule with its elites.

Same

Same, came from Chris's podcast.

@@scriptozavr Welcome!

People used to have way more kids in way worse circumstances. My grandma was born in a little cabin without electricity or running water.. She had 8 siblings. She lived to be 91. We're bitching about non-existent things today. The fact is we're lazy, entitled and prefer living comfortably over furthering society. And so we will die out, and it's not gonna be pretty in the end.

@@novakattila I want my future kids to have an actual chance, not just work for the rest of their life in some dreg job living in a derelict manner until they're gray in the hair.

@@VultureXV thats literally what life is mate. People are just mentally too weak today to tolerate hardship.

That's what life is for the working class, the ruling class have always shagged kids on islands and preached to us that we need to have a stiff upper lip and be stoic all while never having to worry about anything in their lives, including laws

@@novakattila then the best choice is to not have kids, bringing people into this without their consent is the biggest asshole move possible

Bottom line.

Whats so great about having a kid you can barely afford?

@@whyaminotoriginal the love.

@toanewday The love, the personal growth and the knowledge and realization that one is a transient cell in a larger organism that doesn't cease to exist with one's own personal death.

What? Feminism says she can play the field while getting her professional career going and then marry a doormat at the age of 35 and start a family. Or, freeze her dried out eggs and start a family at 45. Of course, the success rate is about 3%. Only 50% of women marry. 50% of those divorce. And, 80% of those divorces are filed by the wife. So, only about 1 in 4 women get married and stay married. This is not a good environment in which to raise children.

I applaud you. Not many women even know this. The very few that do usually speak of it in very hushed tones and certainly not in public. As it turns out, misandric laws have been the most effective form of birth control the world has ever seen.

I'm grateful you never tried to baby trap a man. That to me is far worse than anything. It makes someone else suffer because the system sucks.

@@whenpigsfly3271 I don’t doubt it for a second. My cousin went through this when I was in my formative years and almost killed himself. He has had no contact with his daughters for years now as they were turned against him. I also had the door slammed in my face by the mum at the time and that was that. I had babysat often and loved those girls and I think it probably had a lasting effect on me which is why I’m indifferent about having my own.

@@skylinefever you have to want a baby for that 😂. It’s such an awful thing to do either way, I’ve heard of men sabotaging their partners birth control too! Why would you!?

@Beelzeblub - I think most women don't realize how feminism has stolen their hope of having a family. It has taken 70+ years for men to fully appreciate the risks associated with having a family. When you compare the risk against the cost and benefits, having a family, from a man's point of view, is just not viable. It is strangely amusing to see women in LTRs diagnose the marriage problem as "men are insecure" or "men are intimidated by my education and income." Once men realize how dangerous family courts are, the best relationship a woman can hope for is a sterile one called "friends with benefits." Yet the younger women trudge on carrying the feminist's banner with all its attendant vitriolic rhetoric and having no idea of the harm they're doing. We should bear in mind that the legal and social systems we labor in are designed by rich oligarchs, and everything going on in the world is exactly as they want it to be. The oligarchs will soon see a world containing 500 million people. I can't believe that the people who produced this video portray the fertility situation as an accident or a social misstep. The reality is that it has been engineered to be this way, and feminism and family laws are part of that social engineering. The history of the world is nothing but an ongoing story about the oligarchs mistreatment of the peasants and what the peasants are going to do about it.

Do those same friends spend thousands of dollars on pets, gadgets, and a fancy car?

Lol vancouver..my home town.. destroyed by greed on all levels. Good job im old and do not have to live there.

@@Sisterlisk That's exactly right. In Germany also. Couples invest in dogs and cats, but no children.

@sharegreats2157 such an empty life, if you're able to have children but won't

​@@sharegreats2157Dogs and cats cost a fraction of what children do.

The ever rising cost of everything does not help either. We actually never can afford what we need to raise children. Starting with appropriate housing. Children are not meant to be raised in soulless blocks of flats. Or cities build for cars. Where playing on the street unsupervised is a guaranteed way to get hit by an SUV.

@@MoDa87 it’s truly sad watching it happen in real time. I hope there’s a turning around the corner.

Yes! I agree 100%.

Nah, phones make women have access to the world of men and they think they are deserving of the top 1% of men. Men outside the top 1% are invisible to women. Women wanted and are in the workforce and have depressed wages due to there being 2x as many workers. Men don't want to put in effort to try and date women who now want to be like men and "sport F" basically sleeping around until they are 40. It's a giant societal mess.

This 100%. I don’t understand the others in the comment section saying it’s primarily bc of the decline of religion and selfishness of the younger generation.

Well that's not true. In Europe most of people come from families with 2 o 3 kids, and they are now having just one, and too late. This means 50% or more reduction in just one generation. What the documentary states, might be true for large families 4/5 kids, but not for the (statistically) 'normal' ones.

@Joan Vallve we have chosen to have just one and that's looking like a mistake. I really hope things can change for the better. Looks like the next few years are going to be the start of a whole new world or complete control like the hunger games. I can't see how the rich will settle for anything other than complete control or total defeat.

@@joanvallve7647 From about 32:00 to 42:00, the documentary makes the point that in the entire industrialized world family structure has not changed for women who have had children, but many more are now childless. The birthrate for mothers has remained the same, but the birthrate for women has plummeted. So @lonegramlarsen6766 has it right according to the documentary. Do you have a source to back your claim?

@@Screw_This Percentage of 'only child' in Western countries in the late 60s: between 5 and 9%. Current percentage in Western countries: between 25 and 30%. This documentary only gives a percentage for families in Japan having 3 or more children, which remains similar. In my opinion, the 'child alone' data is much more relevant and completely contradicts the documentary thesis, which states that only the number of childless women has boosted. No, that is not true, so the thesis might also not be.

Yes, I love making a similar point. Why have children so the system can enslave them?

Tengo dos hijos y os doy la razón.

Gen X and SAME. It fills me with satisfaction.

The game is over when the pawns refuse to play.😛🍿

@@crystalfullerton3908 Gen X also. The first generation people took pills to not have...

We won't be here to see it..

It's becoming more and more common to see couples having their first child in their early 40s. Time Will tell if this is good or bad, but it's something that it's certaintly happening.

I have also experienced this. My peers made me feel crazy for becoming a parent at 23. Some of them are having children now at 39/40. My sister had my nephew at 41. And even then we all only have one or two children. Most of my friends don't have children yet.

​@@Jose-se9puit can only be negative

5uper11ero9irl isn't that incredible sad though? Or maybe you didn't want a family enough to pack your bags and leave the country? I would think that if something was central to your life you'd be willing to do absolutely anything to get it....

​@@chad1682 that cannot be expected of most, obviously.

I think the problem is not capitalism. In the 40s, 50s and 60s they had capitalism but they did not have this problem because society was built around single income families. I am grateful as a women for my education and my opportunities, but now it's not just that women *can* have careers but they are *expected* to have careers and it's very very hard to be a mother and a successful career person. Its like the servant with two masters parable. And now the cost of living and consumer pricing is ajusted around single persons who can spend all their wages on themselves and things aren't commonly priced for families.

@@friedawells6860 the problem is definitely capitalism. Back then you had social democracy pushing back capitalism to an acceptable level for more people and long-term health. Soon after capitalism became way to overarching other aspects of society. People are ready for much more social democracy and less capitalism, they often are just not aware of it due to the constant mainstream narratives.

@@abcxyz123 Perhaps, but you can see that socialist countries like Denmark and Germany that have extensive regulations, maternity leaves, free daycare, free education and social welfare still have this problem and their birth gap is even larger than the US. I think we have created a culture where women are ashamed to take time off work to raise their kids. We have decided that having a career is the ultimate form of fulfillment and that the woman is lazy or missing out on her potential is she stays home while the husband works. And it may have something to do with a sort of culture of capitalism that molds people through advertising to be the ultimate worker and consumer, but I think the economic system itself is not to blame.

America has had much worse problems to face in the past, and people still had kids. The difference this time is that many have started believing Evolution and Climate Alarmism which tells them that life is worthless and humans are the problem.

Then why do poor people make the most children

@@guadalupefreyre5900 Many reasons…

Don’t buy a house. Buy land. Put up a yurt or cabin. Makes no sense to take on a huge debt of a house.

Inflation is something only right wingers talk about. You're not a right winger are you?

An educated mom, at that. Well done, all.

That is awesome - well done to you and to your daughter - and her partner. I think many people shy away from struggle nowadays, and live in constant fear of it such that they never have children for fear of not being able to support their family: but it is false reasoning, as you simply find a way to support it. People need faith in their own ability to find ways to support their family.

Happy for you but want to point out that at any moment her husband could have died and then she would be stuck with 3 children + a degree but very outdated (or no) work history. My mother was in that position when trying to go back to work after being a SAHM for several years. The worst part is that she never paid into social security so now everything she makes is for that goal. My father made great money as an engineer btw

@MadFlourish Isn't there life insurance policies for sudden or accidental death? I was a stay at home mom for 25 years, when my youngest went to 12th grade, I started working again at my husband's company and don't regret either option. It was wonderful to be there for my kids and it's great working again. It's not that complicated. You adapt to your circumstances. My 3 kids, one is working in the company, the other just graduated and has a job, the 3rd one is still a student. Kids don't live with you forever, they become independent. They all had part time jobs. I'm sure each situation has it's own challenges, but being frugal in any situation you find yourself in, make life bearable. No situation, can not be overcome!

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The first comment I (mostly) agree with. Where I would be angry is at your professor for not stressing the seriousness of this. This way his pupils would be better prepared for real life. The work life balance with family playing a major role. This is the true path to happiness.

Civilization is not natural. That's the entire point of it.

Please google "regretting motherhood". Women are neither stupid nor blind. They know the burden that is laid on them when having a child.

@@greentarsius9051 You are the only one here who has associated stupidity with being a woman. No one else.

@@greentarsius9051 This is just due to the rise in narcissm and egoism in women. They are stuck in an adolescent stage where any forms of responsibility are deemed an affront to their unique human worth.

Thank you Henry

It's already too late. Capitalism, feminism and misandric laws have destroyed families, prevented families from forming, and promoted the promiscuous female. Women who have high body counts don't make good wives or good mothers.

A lot of people aren’t gonna have kids for ethical reasons, look up Antinatalsim. This is wonderful news for us.

All centered around you and your husband. You are so righteous. But are your children happy, and will they be happy throughout their lives facing bullying and other types of violence, body shaming, age shaming, inferiority complex, inevitable physical and maybe mental succumbing of their beloved parents, etc.?

Good luck when divorce comes.

I doubt you did much raising.

​@@MrSandman_0981i dont think it matters much as a medical doctor. They always marry other md's or the like they all make bank.

That's wild, but hardly a model for everyone. Apparently you have drive, good for you, but personally one kid is more than enough to handle for me. That'll remain my contribution.

Mike Judge is an astute observer of human nature.

I work in social services in a part of the country still "green". The other couple isn't too far off from reality either.

Do you think your child deserves parents who are at least financially equipped to raise children?

@@gorochu4287 As someone who grew up in a very low middle class family I ask the same question.

a very good point as well, it's all part of the problem.

Learn about finance and how to make money. If you have time for RU-vid but are poor, you are lazy. If you have time for social media but are poor, you are lazy. If you have time for TV but are poor, you must admit that you are lazy. No sugar coating about that!

people didnt use to live alone... one house one family... everyone together helping... no we are individualized... one house for heach person

Section-8 is the mommy of today and the future.

@@dusanveselka3240 An you are robbing people so you have money for everything....

Women also want to have millionaires because they are too lazy to work.

@@Cocoisagordonsetter It's more complicated than just "number of men". It's the number of "eligible men". Or, "men who a woman would want to marry!" 🤣

@@Cocoisagordonsetter southern Japan is very traditional. So many women hope for a husband who will pay for everything, and then NOT have affairs all over the place. Personally, I think the women are too picky.

This is very true. My child sees her grandparents quite often, but because we had her so late I feel like I cheated her out of a lot of time with them. Something else people don't seem to consider is that while they might not want to be parents, have they thought about not being grandparents, because that means something a lot different. People will not let you be involved with their children without a good reason, so when the loneliness really sets in with this cohort, they're going to be very distraught. We see this with more and more people lavishing attention on their pets. It's perverse in many respects.

There are people who don't have kids and don't want them for many reasons including abuse. Don't assume.e everyone is the same

Companion bots are the only real.solution to both the young male loneliness crisis and the elderly childless loneliness crisis. Artifical wombs are the only real solution to the birthrate crisis. Technology is the only solution to most things.

@@RCCarDude and nevermind their own parents who won’t enjoy the dimension of grandchildren. Life is not fair, it is what it is.

@@zebrafinch12 of course. That and/or personal mental issues/disorders that one may deem too horrible to pass on.

There simply is no incentive to have kids other than "it's rewarding". Yeah, sure it is. I'll pass on that, i can't afford to live myself.

This "day and age" is a lot easier to navigate than the 60s or 70s.

Your cost of living is vastly cheaper than cost of living in 1800 yet they had more children. People faced lifetime of servitude to their lords with no prospects of having freedom !!! and still had more children. Your ancestors didn't have food security, often dying of starvation, and yet had more children. They would love to dream of job security. All those reasons are bullshit, excuses, not the reason.

@@jaazz90Hahahah you’re so delusional!

@@HazzyWazzey Hahahah really? You're the delusional one. You don't want kids, simple as. And instead of being honest to yourself you come up with excuses.

Feminism... plain and simple. That and birth control pills

I was slowly coming to realize in my late teens that I wouldn't want kids because of how irrirated I get from basic interactions with them, even kids my own age at the time. But with all the other shit of everything being unaffordable and unsustainable it only validated my decision and I even want to take extreme precautions such as getting sterilized before I even get hit on by a man.

@@britneybij3997 Sad. Don't preclude your options; you may have a change of heart ! Life has funny turns !

Amen! You said everything! I cry a lot exactly because of these reasons that will lead me to never be able to become a mother…. Because i am responsabile and i will never give birth to my child in survival conditions..I dont need a pregnancy test to love my child! I i love him already! And i cant do this to him/her ! Its a very unlucky era for us that are 30 now….

It's negative exponential. The NWO will end up with their 500 million without having to do anything about population directly.

What do you think of all of the people who have children anyway? Why do you think that expensive housing is necessary?

I appreciate your feedback and am glad that you enjoyed watching.... Thank you!

@@birthgap Saw your video from Chris channel. Great video. A thought experiment question I have is, would people seeing more of the life cycle aka more people seeing births, deaths and in between not have a positive affect on people to have more children. So not having that would have an inverse effect ? Also after a war, birth rates increase but as society ages (older people) they are less likely to go to war. Would war create a push for more natalist policy as people want to have their nations survive ?

The loss of a sense of community in many societies has certainly distanced people from "the life cycle". Not seeing/feeling that could well be a factor, as you suggest... More generally I believe the solution to stabilizing birthrates lies at the community level

@@birthgap indeed. This seems eerily similar to the Calhoun mouse experiment,behavioural sink. Same problem, we have mostly everything but still are not having children.

It can't be fixed. Countries need to have reduction in welfare state. We need to abolish retirement and lowering taxes + more immigration.

Yeah you should have had children and raise them to be good honest and hard working people. You definitely can not pay attention to the indoctrination camps called the public school system. My kids grew up in that system and have turned out to be good honest hardworking people. It’s all how you look at it. Learn what you need from it and leave the rest.

Universe 25 is what you're referring to. When Maslow's hierarchy of needs are met and exceeded a metaphenomenon occurs: the biological impetus to survive and procreate is dialed down immensely. We think of ourselves as individuals but never as a super organism. Remember, our genes outlive even our species. That we have such a insular view of ourselves is a tragedy. It's no coincidence ppl have no vision or hope for the future. An autoimmune reaction has entered our collective epigenetics.

Yes, the laws are so bad, poor men can’t be themselves any more and women are able to tell them to go f*** themselves- literally 😂😂😂 - with the attitudes like theirs. You dream of the past - when men had all the power money and women had to be submissive to survive and put up with all the crap thrown at them by their fathers husbands and society. We have quite good memory. And that’s why we don’t want this shit anymore and prefer cats. 😂

Thank you Marty

Whether it's blessing or not is subjective, several women have experienced many postparrtum complications it wrecks your body too much physical & mental fatigue plus the responsibility of raising the baby in a good human is no joke. It's not a blessing at least for me.

@@happythanos6632yes definitely agree with pregnancy wrecking the body. My hair has never been the same since giving birth to my child 12 years ago, and my periods are terribly heavy and painful since child birth.

​@@happythanos6632That totally depends. My wife has 4 kids and is totally fine. I know women having more than 10 children, and being in great shape. One of the mothers in my parish left the hospital 24h after having her 12th child, because she was bored in the hospital.

Corpse Bearer!

And here we are, close to the full year of unsuccessful trying and I'm so sick of the disappointment every month. No changes, aunt Flo is absolutely reliable, my blood tests are good, whoever once told me the trying part is the fun part deserves a punch in the face. I want to have a family already.

And why should we expect to give up anything? Let the richest and most elite give up something and just keep breeding among each other. They can hire their own kids to work for each other.

the real rise is in the childless, not the rise of 1 child famlies.

To me, the most obvious reason is women not getting their needs met in relationships. In my mother's generation, many women went to college but most would still be married with at least 1 kid by the age of 30. The difference was men didn't waste women's time and young men understood that you didn't lead a woman on for years without marrying her. Cohabitation without marriage was almost unheard of. Nowadays there are countless cases of men ending a 5,6,10,15 year relationship with a woman without ever fully meeting her needs or offering marriage to the woman.

It might have straightened you out; caring for another, dependent human !

@@linmal2242 settle petal 🌻

@@linmal2242 nope

@linmal2242 that usually isn’t how this situation ends up.

I'm content at this point to just watch it burn.

Don't worry, the humans natural to the planet are doing just fine. And will colonize the stars without destroying everything they touch.

Make sure your married first ...

@@whyaminotoriginal I am on your side and actually do intend to get married before having children, however your comment is actively discouraging. It was a condescending and patronising remark from someone who knows nothing about my life. I fear you have missed the point of the documentary, if your goal is to encourage women having children then it’s wise to pick your battles and not place a further barrier on an enthusiastic young woman.

@Heloise Kennedy wish I got married first. Everything is being done in the wrong order. Should be secure a decent job, get married, buy a house. Then have children. Most people skip straight to the last one and then don't even stay together.

If you live in any western country, your boyfriend would be very naive to marry you. Misandric law make you an anathema. You've only got 4 years left. Over 30 years old, you are considered geriatric.

@@heloisekennedy4161 Have you considered popping the question to your current boyfriend?

thinking too much bro...

Where do you live that you can't afford raising one child on a decent wage?

@Tappajaav A decent wage. That's the thing right... If only I had a decent wage.

@@TankPlaysGames Ah, that's unlucky. Skilled laborer and school educated, both of those sounded like something that'd provide livable wage

@Tappajaav 15 years of experience. All the jobs in my area pay $22 an hour. That doesn't pay all the bills. And I manage my money well too. I have to. I don't have a choice. Considering the actual minimum wage in my area should be around $35 (I'm not kidding. It's bad here.) I am struggling to get by. My s/o works in Healthcare. The two of us together can't afford a run down house. The cheapest thing around is $400k and that's a 2 hour commute to both our jobs.

dlnt worry, the growing lbbqt community will solve that

You are right.

I knew at 15 I didn't want to have children. Never wavered, never had "baby fever." Have saved well for retirement. Best decision ever.

Yes

Might I add, it’s not solely on woman to populate the world and we shouldn’t be expected to raise children alone. Men play apart in this also by making and leaving women single mothers.

@@PrincessJas1024 agreed! If there is any doubt in the relationship or sign that the man won't stay, I for one do not want to have a child. My Mom raised me alone since they got a divorce shortly after I was born and I don't want to raise my child in that kind of struggle-emotionally and financially

No, we aren't teaching the importance of marriage with our children, we drank the kool-aid we were given - focus on a career, men aren't important, relationships aren't important, grandparents aren't important, only acquiring is important - 4 televisions, new vehicles, huge huge houses, don't learn to garden - do takeout because that is a sign of wealth. Blah blah blah

​@@marywiggins7411 Exactly. In general the higher their income, the less children people choose to have.

Good point. 👍

This.

Yes but we'd have to tax wealthy people for that to happen, which is why it won't.

Actually it's the opposite. These systems are designed, not on population growth, but age limits and an early age of death. Think about how much longer the human life span is now compared to just 50 years ago. While there have been birth booms and declines over the decades, the population has been relatively controlled via young deaths. Most people couldn't think about living past 70 just 50 years ago but now we have a thriving population of 90 year olds and even a population of 100 year olds. This was not precedent in most of our structures because we would expect more people to die sooner than they are. This is what programs like social security and state pension were banking on. People who would die less than 10 years on the system. This would be sustainable regardless of the birthgap because as there are less young people being born more old people would die and we would reach equilibrium. But with our expanding lifespans of people taking a $12,000 yearly pension for over 20-30 years per the law, that's more pressure on young people to pay into the same funds old people are using for far longer than intended. That creates an inverted pyramid. If more old people were dying younger than it wouldn't be an inverted pyramid, it would just become a block and reach equilibrium. But if we have an increase in life expectancy we have to match it with birthrates if we keep the same age frameworks of 65 being retirement age. Maybe we could change the law in the required age for retirement and force the older generation to work for longer as they live for longer. But it's hard to make the argument that a 75 year old grandpa should be expected to still be grinding his hours shoulder to shoulder to a 55 year old guy. But unless we start reversing the birthgap and start going above replacement, that's the only other system we can work on.

Yup, fewer people isn't really a problem once you get past the bump in more elderly than young. That could be dealt with through fair taxation.

I'm confused what do you mean? You raised children and they still left you, so are you better off than the people who swapped for shiny things initially?

@@korenna123 No I am not better off. The point is that I did try and I failed. But I matured a lot doing it. Why don't people admit they are selfish, easier to have cats, no sacrifice... and just be honest. But I'm not whining about it I learnt a lot. Just think it's sad....like seeing nature dying.

I don't think it's that they won't admit it so much as it is they simply aren't particularly bothered by it.

@@Tim85-y2q You said it. This is probably the real reason I live alone.

Young people, by far, are not wealthy enough today to own shinny things and are not even close to being responsible for this. I'm talking about the real shinny things here : housing, cars, healthcare, etc.. The reality is most young people pay around 80% of their money towards old people owning shinny things. For instance, I pay around 35% in taxes where I live. About 70-80% goes to socialized healthcare which I will never realistically use in my life and which is used to the tune of 80% by people older than 55 where I live who overwhelmingly overcrowd the system. Around 10% of my taxes go towards pensions, again, a shinny old people system I will never experience in my lifetime because there mathematically will not be enough children to make the system work by the time I get to 65. That's a solid 80% of my taxes going to old people owning shinny things I don't. (up to 28% of my gross earnings through taxation) The remainining money I have goes towards shelter, living expenses and accumulation of wealth in the hopes of buying a home. Let's go through each : -My shelter is an apartment owned by old people who use it as an investment scheme for their retirement. I pay about 35% of my aftertax earnings towards shelter as I have no other inexpensive choice. (about 23% of gross earnings) -My living expenses are mostly food, transport and communication, all of which combined account for around 25% of aftertax earnings and half of which goes towards paying salaries of overpaid executives who all happen to be over 55-60. (up to 8% of gross earnings) -Any remaining money goes towards investments and paying back debt. Both endeavours are basically how banks can afford paying other investors (older people) who both made my debt possible and paid first into the pot of investment funds hoping the line would continue to go up in value. (26% of gross earnings) I'm at a total of 85% of my gross earnings going towards old people directly or indirectly in this calculation (not factoring many things for sure but still probably accurate within +/-10%). If anyone has any shinny thing here, it's definitely not me or other young people. A cellphone is not a shinny thing, a house and healthcare are.

As a genX I agree with you. We have worked ourselves to death trying to keep up with everything living through 4 recessions and really bad job markets.I would fully support young women getting government subsidies for raising their children. This way women don't have to risk being homeless if the man leaves. We need more children then pay families to have them. Womens nature to conceive children would be valuable to all - as it should be. Instead its a burden and that is wrong.

it goes against the mainstream globalist narratives that there are too many humans and that we are causing changes in the climate

That's one problem (one of many) that China has. No brothers, no sisters. No aunts, no uncles. No cousins. Just acquaintances, nihilism and despair.

I'd say having no kids is preferable to one. raising one kid like that's gonna be harder on all of you than if that person has a sibling, especially when you, and they, get older. The kids help bounce off of and improve each other too.

Yes, millennial coworkers definitely seem to only want one child at most….. sounds really sad and lonely to me. I have four kids, and among the chaos, it’s such a joy to see them all interacting. I tell them that they are my greatest gift to each other.

Yeah I’m the millennial one and done camp here. The thing is it ruins your body, messes your health, is a financial burden, and maintaining a career or even a job, can be difficult, depending on the kind of child you get (disabilities etc). Many people that have one child start out thinking they will have two or three. Then realise the reality of modern day motherhood is very different to what society says it is like. That’s why there’s one and done, A LOT. It’s sad for the only child, their childhood, but as an adult, tbh, my experience of siblings and cousins, adds no real value, if anything I have to fight over resources later, eg an inheritance.

How arrogant to assume that everyone’s family is healthy to be around their children!

exactly. 100%

I think this is a really valid point. I feel that a lot of women in the previous generations were willing to put up with a lot more than the younger generations today, in what they expect from men. Personally, I feel like men need to do their trauma healing work and get in touch with their emotions, in order to meet women's expectations. I watched my own mother and her mother in damaging codependent relationships. There are many reasons why women aren't having kids, and this is a factor, as well as burgeoning prices, lack of community and support, climate crisis, a sense that there is over-population, because where I live it doesn't feel like there is under-population, when everything is over-subscribed and not working properly. It's complex and multi-layered. I hope you fulfilled your dreams. I became a mum at 39 years old, but I only have one child.

@@clareunderwood6690 The world has never had more people in it than it does now. Tomorrow it will have even more. Next year it will have even more. Twenty years from now, it will have even more. In the year 2100, it will have even more, and it will still rise. There is no birthgap happening. There is no under-population. This film is a manipulation, cherry-picking a few countries and making it seem like this is happening everywhere, when it's not.

Hey brother, I'm sure you already know, but I felt the need to say that you will see your other children again. They are waiting for your arrival eagerly. It will be a joyful reunion. ❤ I have one waiting for me.

@@SuperAmp yes , so true brother , can’t wait till I can hold all of them.

inherited imperfection is in all of us from Adam and Eve, and on we pass it to the next generation... until our true healing comes. Happy now and even happier in time to come. ps. Fat people have a much harder time conceiving kids

@@matilda4406 Actually we were both skinny minnies back in our child bearing days. It was medical issues & incompetent doctors that was the problem, but GOD provided.

@@fatbaldguy7166 there is a whole host of things that can go wrong or that make it more tricky, so many things! Yeah, I know a couple who are both skinny minnies and they are in their prime and can't conceive. People with childhood trauma are also in this difficult to conceive group, if it even happens at all. It's impossible to do everything in this life. Take care.

Look up drizzle drizzle. Men aren't the problem.

@@SensSwordyes they are.

@@deezed6478 You went after the bad boys and got burned. Don't touch the hot stove next time after being warned not to do it.

Some people will just argue that since people had children in feudal times then, people should have children now. To me, that's like arguing that because innocent people have always ended up in jail, innocent people should keep getting sent to jail.

@@skylinefever You both make excellent points.

Someone needs to carry the light of liberty into the future.

@@ElijahDecker I think that light will be extinguished. We've lived in a unique period of history in western nations. The freedoms we've enjoyed and the concept of a "middle class" are anomalies in human history. All signs are that we are reverting back to the two tiered authoritarian construct that is the norm. Those two tiers are abject poverty and misery for the vast majority of people and an all powerful ruling class.