• Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    I’d love to have kids. I think it would be wonderful to be able to be a foster parent as another option.

    I can’t afford it. Its impossible. We can barely afford living as it is. How the fuck am I supposed to raise a kid?

    I’m shrugging at falling birth rates not out of indifference, but out of a lack of ability to do anything about it.

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      5 months ago

      Hope? Things could improve, or at least hope that the next generation will be able to improve things. At the very least I see movement to try to do something about housing and college expenses. Maybe they’ll succeed. Renewable energy and electrification seem to be coming, regardless of active resistance. Too slow and too late, but maybe they’ll succeed. We’re in the middle of a wave of enthusiasm about high speed rail. Maybe they’ll succeed