I am just inviting you to see it is a value judgement you are making, not one someone is making for you.
What Boomers might have had in the past is not directly relevant to the quality of life you are or are not able to provide for yourself or your children, any more than a zillion other possible comparisons.
What you are expressing seems to be that you have a certain value about economic position and having kids relative to that.
This is absolutely fine. I just think it is important to recognize it is a statement of values with regard to your circumstances, and your expectations.
When the generations you mention had kids many things in the world were so catastrophically worse for those kids than anything we are likely to experience now ... it was a smoke and alcohol fueled world where muggings often involved hospitalization because someone would hit you in the skull with a roll of quarters from behind. It was a world that had every reason to believe the risk of total annihilation by war, and medical treatments were primitive by comparison to what we had now.
It’s pointless to compare to some other time in history. It’s just a personal decision about what you value.
I am just inviting you to see it is a value judgement you are making, not one someone is making for you.
What Boomers might have had in the past is not directly relevant to the quality of life you are or are not able to provide for yourself or your children, any more than a zillion other possible comparisons.
What you are expressing seems to be that you have a certain value about economic position and having kids relative to that.
This is absolutely fine. I just think it is important to recognize it is a statement of values with regard to your circumstances, and your expectations.
When the generations you mention had kids many things in the world were so catastrophically worse for those kids than anything we are likely to experience now ... it was a smoke and alcohol fueled world where muggings often involved hospitalization because someone would hit you in the skull with a roll of quarters from behind. It was a world that had every reason to believe the risk of total annihilation by war, and medical treatments were primitive by comparison to what we had now.
It’s pointless to compare to some other time in history. It’s just a personal decision about what you value.