From a pretty early age I decided I didn’t want to get married or have kids cuz both my parents seemed utterly miserable. For a long time I found it weird anyone wanted to do it at all, why would you want to be trapped with someone you hate who you get into screaming arguments all the time?
And it’s not just me, you see a lot of jokes online about people like playing that one scene from Marriage Story while playing old N64 games for nostalgia.
I think the experience of seeing our own parents be so miserable maybe soured a lot of us on starting families.
There was a user on Hexbear a few years ago who pointed this out as the main reason birth rates have declined. There’s people living in worse conditions outside of the US who still have kids. Women have more options in the Imperial Core, so of course they don’t want to deal with men or having health problems from giving birth or missing out on their educations/careers or a dozen other reasons. When women don’t have to rely on being a mother for citizenship, of course there’s a decline in marriages and birth rates!
That person got shouted down and they deleted their account. A lot of he/hims not beating the allegations. I think about that person every time this conversation comes up.
Socialist countries have consistently had higher birth rates than culturally similar capitalist countries. Does that mean that women in capitalist countries are freer?