I'm not seething exactly, but I am concerned, and I will tell you why. In my extended/in-law family, the childless relatives outnumber the kids by a fair amount. I am genuinely concerned about what is going to happen to them when we are all old. The plan preferred by the elites is for my white relatives to do MAID or to get a hatian or african immigrant to "care" for them in a nursing home. The best outcome of the 2nd thing is incompetent care, the worst outcome is rapes or beatings (rapes of dementia patients by immigrants has become a huge problem in sweden, for example). That's fucking horrifying. It is hard enough to care for your own parents when they're elderly, even if you have many siblings to help, caring for several aunts & uncles just isn't going to happen, logistically it can't work. I'm not a doomer and I tend to think that the decrease in western/east asian populations is going to ultimately work out alright, I just can't help but think about people I know.
Honestly, this could be just me but I find the whole "You have to have kids because who's gonna take care of you" reasoning manipulative and selfish. To not sound like I'm accusing you of being this, I'll explain it why I think of it that way.
I just find the idea of bringing another person to this world for their only purpose to be wiping my dementia ridden ass in later years extremely selfish. Especially when people use the framing of "Well I brought you into this world, so you're obliged to do this even if I treated you like shit because I'm your parent" to justify forcing this role on their child. What if I want my child to have their own agency? What if they have their goals and wishes? What if I want them to have liberty to do what they want? If disliked the idea of being plunged into a role like this, why would potentially another human being suddenly be the opposite and would be on board for it? I ask these questions because I value liberty and freedom a lot due to learning how easily can get taken from you as a woman, and how often at times to earn this freedom and autonomy back you have to fight for it on your own.
The most retarded thing about the birth rate dipping is that moids have no idea how to make having a family an attractive option for women. Kids are cute and most women like them. It should be the easiest job in the world to sell "have kids" to women, the only thing ruining it is that women have to rely on a man to be decent in order to make women comfortable enough to try. Moids make fun of the 15 year old girl writing an article about how depressed internet men make her, and don't make the connection between that and women prioritizing their careers. Young women don't want to get stuck with a horrible man or end up as a single mother. I can't blame them. The internet has made too much unfiltered moid thought too easy to access. There was plausible deniability before all this.
Oh, they are perfectly aware of that, but, they just reject this idea. Why do you think they keep on insisting that women and parents do not need things such as improved parental leave and less expensive child care, and more down with the idea of brute forcing women into this than changing themselves and improving things? They are super stunlocked into their weird mentality that living in dogshit conditions is the way due to their "Well my grandpa/father lived in dogshit conditions and he did just fine, so should we" anecdotes and because they see asking for better as a "feminine" thing.
What I honestly despise in men's "attempts" to make family attractive is how they try to sell this very docile, tender and delicate idea of motherhood of women with frankly very idiotic statements "Oh don't you want to be tender, vulnerable, tender and feminine with children and no worries in the world, because a man would take care of everything for you?" .
Ummm no, I don't want to be vulnerable at all, dumbass, especially if children are involved in the picture. I would rather want stability. It's very annoying they're really trying to push this specific image of motherhood, when motherhood isn't anything like that at all, especially given how there are so many stories both in animal and human world of mothers becoming forces of reckoning when their child was put in danger. Like I dunno, if you tried to convince me how motherhood is great, maybe tell me about how its metal with mothers becoming powerhouses like that instead of doing the "Hey, you get to be weak and depend on somebody that can basically fuck up your entire livelihood and life on a whim if he chooses to AND THATS A GOOD THING!" schtick, because clearly it's not working.
Perhaps, it's just me but when I would watch animal documentaries about animals and there'd be a section focused on mothers with their offsprings, how despite them having children they are still living life as they do and does not let anyone walk over them despite displaying softness and nurturing towards their offspring that was more to me appealing than the whole artifical tenderness that men insist upon.
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