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Whether or not you decide to have kids is entirely up to you, but it is perfectly normal to have doubts. Many people will try to pressure you into having children, especially your own family. But if you feel that it's not right for you, then you should stick to your guns. #Antinatalism #ChildFree
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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These children suffer because they have been thrust into a world they did not choose and stuck in circumstances they cannot control. Life may seem like a gift when you are born with a silver spoon in your mouth. But what is it when you aren't?

#ExistenceIsSuffering #Antinatalism
March 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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To be born is to begin to die, and to die is to finish dying; this is intolerable to human beings, and we have to cling to something; precisely, one of the evils of life is that it forces us to cling to it without conditions, even when life is of terrible quality.

— Julio Cabrera

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November 26, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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The case against babies

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The confronting climate change disrupter you probably didn't think of
Elon Musk believes the collapsing birth rate is humanity's biggest danger. But antinatalists argue having kids is little more than a procreational Ponzi scheme, and the risks are real.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Antinatalism: David Benatar’s Asymmetry Argument for Why it’s Wrong to Have Children | Philosophy Break
David Benatar’s ‘asymmetry argument’ suggests that, in virtually all cases, it’s wrong to create new life. This article discusses his antinatalist position, as well as common arguments against it.
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October 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I wanted to know if having a kid on a burning planet was right. I found that antinatalism is seriously taboo | Life and style | The Guardian share.google/7UszTOFTy08y...
I wanted to know if having a kid on a burning planet was right. I found that antinatalism is seriously taboo | Bri Lee
Society has come a long way in making space for maternal ambivalence and the childfree movement, but those frameworks ask whether we want to have children, not whether we should
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October 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Just sayin'.
September 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Don’t panic about the global fertility crash www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Don’t panic about the global fertility crash
A world with fewer people would not be all bad
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September 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I have not had a chance to listen to this myself.

Shrinking states: are we on a path to depopulation? – podcast | Science | The Guardian share.google/OaPR5MNHsUeq...
Shrinking states: are we on a path to depopulation? – podcast
How should we be thinking about population decline? In episode one of a two-part series, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dean Spears, assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin, ...
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September 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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New South Korea Data Reveals Scale of Population Decline - Newsweek share.google/S213QKuBCMWC...
New South Korea data reveals scale of population decline
The country recorded only one-third as many births last year as it did 30 years earlier, the report shows.
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September 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Texas birth rates fall faster than U.S. average | kvue.com www.kvue.com/article/news...
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August 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Chile's plunging birth rate may foreshadow future in U.S. : NPR share.google/q1MLbpihBFoT...
Chile's plunging birth rate may foreshadow future in U.S.
Chilean families are having only one child on average. U.S. birthrates are also dropping but it's unclear whether the U.S. will follow into the growing group of "very low" birthrate countries.
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August 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The U.S. fertility rate reached a new low in 2024, CDC data shows | PBS News

#Antinatalism #Parenting #ChildFree #Children #Pregnancy #FertilityRate #Population

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The U.S. fertility rate reached a new low in 2024, CDC data shows
New federal data shows the fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman.
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July 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Utah sees sharpest fertility rate decline in nation as costs of parenthood increase

#Antinatalism #Parenting #ChildFree #Children #Pregnancy #FertilityRate

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Utah sees sharpest fertility rate decline in nation as costs of parenthood increase
The number of children born to mothers in Utah has plummeted in recent years, declining faster than in any other state, according to a study by Value Penguin.T
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July 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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The U.S. birthrate is falling, for many reasons : Consider This from NPR

#Antinatalism #Parenting #ChildFree #Children #Pregnancy #Population

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The U.S. birth rate is falling fast. Why? It's complicated : Consider This from NPR
The total fertility rate is a small number with big consequences.It measures how many babies, on average, each woman will have over her lifetime. And for a population to remain stable - flat, no growt...
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July 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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We are the scourge of the earth.

#Antinatalism #Parenting #ChildFree #Children #Pregnancy #Pollution #PlasticPollution
June 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Why Don't I Want Kids?

#Antinatalism #Parenting #ChildFree #Children #Pregnancy

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Why Don't I Want Kids?
It's a complex world and there are many reasons to question parenthood.
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June 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The “population crisis” they fear is fewer workers, consumers, and soldiers—not extinction.
We’ve shattered Earth’s limits, but we’re too busy mourning GDP to see the collapse we’ve set in motion.

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The Population Crisis Is Here | National Review
The high school class of 2025 is the largest in American history, but it may hold the record forever.
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June 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I am the way into the city of woe.
I am the way to a forsaken people.
I am the way into eternal sorrow.
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.

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June 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Japan urged to use gloomier population forecasts after plunge in births

#Antinatalism #ExistenceIsSuffering #PopulationDecline #ChildFree #Parenting

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Japan urged to use gloomier population forecasts after plunge in births
Number of children born in 2024 already worse than median forecast for 2039
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June 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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The good news just keeps rolling in.

World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says

#Antinatalism #PopulationDecline #Extinction #Parenting

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World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
Hundreds of millions of people are not able to have the number of children they want, the UN warns.
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June 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Japan's fertility rate hits record low

#Antinatalism #PopulationDecline #Parenting
#BirthRate

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Japan’s fertility rate hits record low
TOKYO — Japan’s fertility rate declined in 2024 for the ninth consecutive year, reaching another historical low that underscores the immense challenge facing the government as it attempts ...
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June 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.

— Edward Abbey

#Antinatalism #Parenting #Children #Privilege
May 19, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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If destruction is violence, creation, too, is violence. Procreation, therefore, involves violence. The creation of what is bound to perish certainly involves violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Drawing by Wahyu Andarya; found online.
May 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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This is really good news, although the author is less enthusiastic about the outcome than I am.

#Antinatalism #PopulationDecline #Parenting #BirthRate #Children #Pregnancy

Our current fertility rate isn't high enough for humanity to survive

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Our current fertility rate isn't high enough for humanity to survive
A new study finds that a fertility rate of 2.7 children per woman, not 2.1, may be needed to avoid long-term population extinction.
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May 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM