In fact, according to an Intuit Credit Karma survey, 35% of millennial women don’t want kids at all — and 40% of those women say it’s because they cannot afford it.

Real great source for that stat. Real reliable that one.

Oh 40% of the 35% of millennial women that don’t want kids at all say it’s because of money. That proves it!

Money and the economy are factors, but they aren’t the main driving reason behind the fall in birth rates.

Then you haven’t actually read many articles about this issue. You’ve just read headlines and assumed.

Both. It’s definitely possible for both to be true in the US.

It’s not a problem. Women choosing how many children they want and when they want to have them is not a problem.

There are people who want you to think it’s a problem so they can be allowed to strip women of their reproductive rights.

It’s an extremely high risk activity that unfortunately necessitates involving other people in things like body clean up if they make a mistake. First responders and the passerby’s around get to carry that burden.

They didn’t even take the risk for anything but their own show promotion.

Seriously, why is everyone so taken with these people? They did nothing but promote themselves.

Selfish. So incredibly selfish it’s astonishing.

Pulling a stunt like this has nothing to do with whatever message they put up on the sign. This is purely for attention.

With an added risk of forcing other people to clean up their bodies.

This is an expose into how Trump made the 250th celebration about himself.

Truly the pressing issue of the times. /s

Right, but men didn’t gain contraception access and education and career opportunities the same way women did.

They already had it.

I’m not mad either.

When we put our thoughts out into the world, sometimes people will respond to them.

I hope you have a great end to your week and have a relaxing weekend.

Does it matter? We shouldn’t judge others’ personal decisions for their own lives, right?

When given the choice, women choose to delay having children and they don’t have as many children as they were forced to before contraception was available.

The economy doesn’t help, but it’s not the main driving force.

Ah so you decided to feed all of us the line that we’re selfish for having kids in a comment where you’re complaining about being told you’re selfish for not having kids.

Thanks for clarifying.

Yeah the choice to have or not have children should be regarded with much more respect by everyone.

Not everyone in here is child-free by the way.

People have been having children in terrible conditions for a long, long time. I like to focus on the small joys when I start to feel this way about having kids.

Remember the joy you see on their faces when you’re spending time with them. Celebrate their cleverness and their love. Focus on building your real community around you for them and for yourself. Help neighbors. Grow plants. Reconnect with the good parts of life.

We all make decisions with what we know at the time. It’s easy to beat ourselves up when we have more information and wisdom than we did before.

It’ll fit right in! Make sure to wear your “I dissent” pins, too!

I am simply observing that sometimes rational people making rational decisions have negative consequences.

…yeah this isn’t a comment made in a vacuum. This directly implies that women’s choices are leading to negative consequences.

My point is that I don’t think the falling birth rates are a problem at all.

Cry harder, my goodness. It was a little catty, but I did edit it out almost immediately. It was not extremely ugly hahaha