Modern parenting is so stressful that the U.S issued a health advisory. Parents say it's overdue
Studies have linked comparing your own parenting to what you see on social networking sites with higher rates of maternal depression, higher cortisol levels and increased envy and anxiety in mothers specifically.But it's hard not to compare, said Meenakshi Sharma-Vadnais, 35, of Ottawa.
Sharma-Vadnais, a mom of three, says this generation of parents is overloaded by online information. She jokes that as an influencer and parenting blogger, she's part of the problem.
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in reply to Adam Hunt • • •Yay. Another health advisory that powerless people can do FA about.
What do you expect from several generations of neoliberal extremists, failing state, pandemic, sedition, gross wealth inequality and fundamental core values as a people which include greed, cruelty, brutality, and violence?
Adam Hunt
in reply to Adam Hunt • • •Actually this issue is like smoking, totally your decision or not to get into.
I had a discussion with a 30-ish friend recently who was trying to explain he and his partner's decision to not have kids. I told him, you don't have to justify that one bit. On a planet with 7B humans and climbing fast I think you need to make a very good case for having kids; you don't owe anyone an explanation not to.
Now I know some young people who decided to have kids and enjoy it and I have no problem with that, either. What this article details though is how most people have kids and are not prepared, can't handle it and apparently whine a lot. The lessons I have learned is, parenting is a tough job with no thanks, so don't take it on unless you are prepared to put in at least 20-30 years without a break and no whining.
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in reply to Adam Hunt • • •The pressure to have kids was daily, and by the same horrific family members who had so much Christian love (and brutal control) to share.
But when a cat chooses me, that's something to celebrate.
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in reply to Adam Hunt • • •Sure, have all the cats you like. I never hear anyone saying their cats stress them out.
As far as relatives demanding grandchildren and so on, I always said, "if you want grandchildren, then you have them."
One meme I saw a while back: a woman said "About me having kids, I told my mother the same thing she told me me when I was five and wanted a pony: 'no'."
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in reply to Adam Hunt • • •Nah. At national scales everyone not having any kids creates extreme age differences in the population leading to eff'd up social dynamics.
In the US "fewer people, more for us" means more for the wealthy who own and operate this place.
IMO keeping an optimal generational spread with an eye toward curbing overpopulation has value in more civilized countries. Providing birth to death accommodations for everyone, parents or no, fosters a longer view that's absent in the US.
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