Its true, but [politics incoming] it’s harder since the nuclear home resulted in the elimination of community, and both parents are forced to work to get by, and it only looks to be getting worse.
Raising kids is great (for many people), but it shouldn’t be your entire life. The unfortunate reality is that work and raising kids is the only life many people have access to.
It’s also not really the case that parents are “doing it to keep the population up” so the premise is wrong.
Well now I’m going to run it in! Neener neener neeeeener!
Jk. You are right though, we need wider community, and this capitalist hellscape has ruined a great many things, in addition to raising a family. I honestly have no clue how my parents, especially my mom did it.
It was possible to live on one salary, so your mother could be a full time stay at home mom. This gave us the energy to be able to follow other passions
Basically 2 people with 2 full-time jobs between them have more energy than 2 people with 3 full time jobs between them.
Mom could volunteer and join clubs while I was at school. Dad could do marathons on the weekend. We could do family activities like camping or skiing because they weren’t exhausted by also having to do another 40 hours of work per week between them.
Yeah, but my mom worked full time (over, really, more than 40hrs plus a long commute) dad also worked full time, plus a teacher so lots of extra junk t at teachers have to do. Still, they raised me and were there for me.
Its true, but [politics incoming] it’s harder since the nuclear home resulted in the elimination of community, and both parents are forced to work to get by, and it only looks to be getting worse.
Raising kids is great (for many people), but it shouldn’t be your entire life. The unfortunate reality is that work and raising kids is the only life many people have access to.
It’s also not really the case that parents are “doing it to keep the population up” so the premise is wrong.
But it’s funny to imagine it that way
Well now I’m going to run it in! Neener neener neeeeener!
Jk. You are right though, we need wider community, and this capitalist hellscape has ruined a great many things, in addition to raising a family. I honestly have no clue how my parents, especially my mom did it.
I asked my parents exactly this.
They said something like
Basically 2 people with 2 full-time jobs between them have more energy than 2 people with 3 full time jobs between them.
Mom could volunteer and join clubs while I was at school. Dad could do marathons on the weekend. We could do family activities like camping or skiing because they weren’t exhausted by also having to do another 40 hours of work per week between them.
Yeah, but my mom worked full time (over, really, more than 40hrs plus a long commute) dad also worked full time, plus a teacher so lots of extra junk t at teachers have to do. Still, they raised me and were there for me.
Insane.
I’m assuming they also had more family and community than we have. And a lot less social pressure.
I had so much unsupervised time lol.
lol same on the unsupervised time.