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   @cantagiousca5220

   December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

   I wouldnt have a baby woth a foreigner

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   @yossarian_lives

   December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

   We need to go back to one parent working, one parent staying at home with the kids. Childcare is a racket and most parents (particularly young mums) would prefer to raise their own kids.

   Excessive immigration over the last 25 years has (is) also driving up both house prices and rents.

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   @albertovazquez6034

   December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

   They don’t care about you as a person, they care about you as a tax paying “worker”. This is also not a crisis. Declining fertility rates and population is a good thing on a planet past it’s carrying capacity.

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   @gabrielmartinez2455

   December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

   People in the US can barely afford life without children, let alone with kids. I have one, and done for good.

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   @cas1652

   December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

   I am a father of two, with the third in the oven. We are fortunate to be able to make it work. We are from Germany but the problem is everywhere the same I think. Here are my top reasons why we won't have more kids and what the reasons for the birthrate problem are.

   We are too old. Why are we too old? Well I at least spent my twenties living like a teenager because this society is all about hedonism. It took me a long while to discover the values needed to be where I am now and I had to do it with very little help.

   My society doesn't like children. Everyone says they do but they don't really. Everyone treats children like a burden either to be pawned off to some institution or family member or annoyance to be bribed into being quiet. When you are young, people tell you that being a young parent is the end of the world. If you listen to society, there is never a good time to have children.

   The state is too greedy. I have an excellent salary and my wife has a profitable small business that she kept running throughout. Still we struggle with money mainly because whenever you earn money the government taxes it three different ways.

   The government is actually insane. Every year there is a new hare brained scheme sure to make our life difficult in some dimension and that's on top of the rampant dysfunction cropping up all over the place. Even the stuff that used to work, like the excellent kindergarten my first daughter went to, is now closed off to my second daughter because my government has to cure the world by taking in all the refugees. Energy prices are insane. Food prices are insane. Housing prices are insane. Public safety is deteriorating. All because of crazy policies. When does it stop?

   Nobody knows why they should have kids in the first place. Nobody has the confidence that they can handle kids if they have them. Nobody knows how they can pay for having the kids.

   We fcked our culture and then we fcked our economy and people biggest worry is a flu and the weather in 50 years.

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   @godhoward7684

   December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

   They forgot the first rule.
   No kids in the crib

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   @tc-tm1my

   December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

   If boomers lived in this economy in their 30s, they'd opt out too.

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   @tc-tm1my

   December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

   No government will fix it because the problem is universal. Having a family is too expensive, too stressful, and too time consuming for the average person. That was true 50 years ago too and resulted in poverty and mass divorce. Millennials learned from their parents and opted out.

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   @SweetBerry13

   December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

   Omg. Stop making those excuses. I make 1500 gross a month working 2 jobs about 220 hours per month. Mortgage is 400. Utilities 100. Going to store is 50 €. I alone spend 400€ on food. Excuse me, how I am supposed to afford a child?!

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    @MsAmani-ln3wj

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    So a subsidy, yet the first benefit is that the workers can now work more hours? Not that they can have more children? Make it make sense.

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    @SuperWinter42

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    Babies contribute to climate change.

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12. 

    @TheNikolius

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    Imagine explaining to a pensioner in 15 years they're gonna starve because there arent enough tax payers to afford to fund them anymore, due to the previous pensioners milking the cow dry throughout their voting lifetime, creating an economy where we cant own a home let alone raise children. Also Wonder how many people will suffer due to covid measures destroying the economy, just to save a handful of 80 year olds…..

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    @offtraileddino5989

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    We just need one King in the the British realm and the rest robots and NPCs.

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    @johnpaulgrieve7487

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    Man the UK government is truly full of it the crooked politicians we have in charge are disgusting people messing with ordinary peoples life's & decisions, the amount of unfair stuff they try to get out of people who try to live comfortable with less worry going forward are at risk again, to everyone that is in the UK government stop making life more stressful & harder than it already is the ordinary people in the UK want to live with less strain & pressure, so UK political officials back off you've done to much damage & the mess ups you politicians have caused you all make it even tougher for people trying to find work have children keep a roof over are head we even to pay ridiculous high price taxes on everything & we don't get enough money to cover the high prices anymore & the list goes on, it's not right all you scummy crooked politicians will get a taste of karma coming your way one way or the other so stop targeting the vulnerabe people & let us all live are lives in peace good night

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    @mightymulatto3000

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    The fact that governments are willing to subsidize parents' time AWAY from their children shows just how much the endeavor has become undesirable.

    Abortion, contraception and sterilization are one half of the two sided coin; euthansia of the elderly is the other side.

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    @robertwalker5218

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    Britain is becoming a mongrel race. It is finished I would advise all true Britons to leave now if they can.

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    @MrMarkhall1

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    What's going on these days ? Why do parents need childcare? When I was growing up my Mum didn't have to work, my Dad worked and supported her, children under their 5s should be with their Mum 24/7.

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    @rishi505

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    Mother Earth need break . 8 billion enough

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    @SonBfly

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    Ha lol, all they are doing is letting sick babies die even when the baby Italian and they will not let it go home.

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    @Da1Dez

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    I'm now 30 and still can't afford to have children, but my girlfriend is beginning to pressure me into start considering it within nexr year…..

    I'm beginning to fret, what can I do?!….

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    @ELI-tj1ib

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    People stop making babies because they can see the pros and cons of raising a child in today's world. In the past there were more pros than cons plus people weren't so stressed out. Today all I can see is people who make £15/h in their full-time job and can barely make a rent as a single person ! Not to mention even qualified and experienced people don't have stable jobs. I see laid offs left and right. Nobody with the right mind would bring children into this. People are stressed out and you get to see more and more people visiting foodbanks. The sides flipped. The cons outweigh pros of having kids. Obviously the aftermath will be significant. Decreased number of people in workforce in the next 10 – 15 years or so. Cause and effect.

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    @philflip1963

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    The UK population has been increacing for decades. The idea that the old must survive by feeding off an eternally increacing supply of the young is outmoded, ultimately untennable and even immoral. People should survive by their own efforts, people work, they pay taxes and when they are too old to work they get pensions and eventually die.
    This is all just a case of pannicking over the fact that the non-productive portion of the population is growing relative to the productive portion and the fact that this goes against traditional modes of socio-economic activity.
    We have to learn to survive upon our own resources and we should not forget that technological innovation increaces the standard of living for all, irrespective of changes in age related demographics.
    My parents generation never had Automatic Washing Machines!
    Better Government that shared wealth, (the products of human labor) more equally is an area of innovation that is sadly neglected.

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    @dabluflcn

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    Having kids is too expensive and no one wants to raise children in almost certain poverty if they can help it. This is what happens when consumption consumes the consumers.

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    @davidgillham6847

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    It's simple, there's currently no incentive to have kids anymore apart from all the love and joy they bring of course, not going to down play that. But when you do have them it'll feel like you've been setup to fail with how things currently are. Having kids now means you're basically a lot poorer, a lot lot poorer, so that right off the bat means only 1-2 kids per family for the average middleclass both parents working home. Both parents now have to work, and with childcare too everyone is so stressed and run ragged all the time. Childcare costs are also insane, and this is where the government needs to seriously help out. Also make things cheaper for parents/families with kids, not just for students, more discounts for working families, kids go free, more tax breaks, etc… And without affordable good homes, the situation will only get worse.

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    @rodrigoribeiro387

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    It is white genocide.

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26. 

    @goodtimes9501

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    The solution to this is to have more cats available.

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    @VVayVVard

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    Regardless of what people claim, if you started taxing those with <3 biological children significantly more than those with 3+ children, the issue would resolve itself very quickly. Ultimately, raising children is cheap if you want it to be, and you don't need much space for it at all.

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    @VVayVVard

    December 19, 2023 at 3:59 pm

    Immigration (the band-aid solution) has also resulted in a steady increase in rent, especially in urban areas, further exacerbating the issue.

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