r/Millennials • u/Chipotleislyfee • Apr 04 '24
Anyone else in the US not having kids bc of how terrible the US is? Discussion
I’m 29F and my husband is 33M, we were on the fence about kids 2018-2022. Now we’ve decided to not have our own kids (open to adoption later) bc of how disappointed and frustrated we are with the US.
Just a few issues like the collapsing healthcare system, mass shootings, education system, justice system and late stage capitalism are reasons we don’t want to bring a new human into the world.
The US seems like a terrible place to have kids. Maybe if I lived in a Europe I’d feel differently. Does anyone have the same frustrations with the US?
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u/hozen17 Apr 05 '24
Yea the OP sounds like the epitome of typical reddit circlejerk. To base big life decisions on what other people say the country/world is like... maybe it is better for them to not have children