Die Hälfte der kinderlosen kanadischen Frauen möchte keine Kinder, fast ein Viertel in den Vierzigern ist keine Mutter: Statistics Canada

God forbid women decide they’re perfectly happy being in a SINK or DINK household. Lots of us are happy not having kids, and that’s before we start talking about whether we can actually afford them or not.

If they never wanted kids in the first place, good, let them live happy. If they do want kids, then it’s tragic for those aspiring mothers and that means there’s still affordability issues to address.

I’m glad we had two kids but man it isn’t easy to afford these days, don’t blame the Gen Z’s and fellow millennials who didn’t take the plunge. 

And that is our choice. Women do not owe society children.

Real estate. Rent. What you want. Also women marry globally sideways and upwards in socio economic mobility. There is a restriction on number of men to go around who can afford resources.

The only issue here is the demographic issue. There will be very few young people in the future generations and a lot of old people. This is already a rapidly approaching issue. Which means we’ll need a lot more immigration if we don’t want everything to collapse. If you’re okay with that and don’t want kids, then don’t have kids.

All throughout school we were told there is an overpopulation crisis worldwide. Now even if we wanted kids we cant afford to eat anyways.

How many of them expect there to be a functioning economy when they retire?  To collect OAS, to get health care, or even to have stores and services to spend their retirement savings at?

Because all of that requires someone to have kids.

Edit: and although the headline is talking about women, my comment applies to men too.  Kids need a father and a mother, and everyone wants society to keep functioning after they retire.

Edit2: I always get down voted for comments like this but it is a simple statement of fact. Unless you want to work until you die, you need another generation to work for you. 

People got choice, they took the choice.

Fine by me. Survival of the strongests always prevail. 

The survey started at age 20 and I know more than a few people who didn’t want kids at 20 but changed their tune once they got a bit older.

That said, the birthrate is definitely low and the increased cost of living is certainly going to impact the capability and willingness of people to start a family.

Wcgw making lives unaffordable!

Almost finished the hard part of raising two kids. My advice? Don’t have kids

You want immigrants because that’s how you get immigrants. (There is nothing wrong with proper immigration)

As I say in every thread on this, and as the article repeats: socio-economic and cultural factors.

Affordability has very little to do with it. People can afford kids – they simply aren’t having them.

Seems like a common trend amongst a lot of „western“ nations, even the democratic asian countries tend to have this issue.

Yea being childless is great when you are young but when you get old, not so much. You will not be in your 20s and 30s forever.

You don’t want to be in your 70s and 80s and have no one to lean on.

Have kids. You won’t regret it. I promise.

You have to ask what world the kids would be inheriting – but on the other end of it, I think it kinda shuts the door on romantic relationships for alot of people if they feel they have to give up on the prospect of family life. Theres no endzone. It means alot of isolation.

Housing, expensive end of discussion