Anon is a grandma

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• Waterpumpee@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  having more kids because hubby made good money is the real story here. Politicians keep mourning low birth rates (albeit some seem too happy to offset them with migration) and keep saying since this is a problem in all industrialized nations must be wealth causing it. Real story is, if wages so low the mother has to work fulltime, they are less likely to get children, if any. Basically we, the workers, get bred out of the DNA pool slowly.

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  • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep I’d at least have one kid if I could afford it. But as it stands 1 kid would make life pay check to pay check and hellish. Me and my wife both even have “decent” jobs. Jobs that 20 years ago would have paid enough for a family of 4 and a suburban house, but today not so much.

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  • velma@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s exactly why politicians are targeting women’s healthcare here in the US - they don’t want to pay more wages, but they also want the birth rate up and women staying at home raising babies. Teen pregnancies have reduced a lot, so they’re taking away sex education and contraception and abortion.

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ironically, one of the factors of lowered birthrates in the US is because the working class has veen earning less and less since Reagan due to inflation and the rich fucks continually hoovering up all the increases in wealth for themselves.

    But the billionaires don’t even want high birthrates. Many of them see the rest of us as parasites and want everyone but their personal serfs to die off.

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  • Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    hubby was 17 and bringing in six figures? Damn, competition out there is tough

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    • SippyCup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      HVAC guys can bring in that much.

      They work 6, 12 hour days to do it. But they can make pretty good money. They just don’t get to spend it.

      They can also make next to nothing. Depending on unionization status and how busy their area is.

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    • Varesti@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was probably 5 figures when you needed 4 to buy a car and 5 to buy a house.

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• protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  rural america 15 yo and pregnant

  checks out

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• Varesti@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Image

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    70…83??

    That’s very concerning if this is all matrilineal

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    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They say 7 generations, and they aren’t counting generations as Gen X and Gen Y, they seem to be counting them as mother to child. So, there is a 13 year old that had a child, and a 15 year old holding her 1 month old.

      Here is the best I could do with something that is remotely trustworthy as a source: guinnessworldrecords.com/…/most-living-generation…

      Guinness confirms the lineage.

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    • meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I wonder how many were first born.

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  • Bubs@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    From youngest to oldest, the gaps are:

    15 years
    18
    19
    18
    13
    20

    Some of those numbers are not very pleasant…

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  • howdy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    jazz music stops

    banjo music starts

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  • nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Young motherhood nothwithstanding, it must be kind of cool for the oldest/youngest to be able to see that many generations of your family alive at one time. I only vaguely remember some of my (great) grandparents, I can’t imagine seeing seven generations, I bet the extended families are huge.

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• davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The way I like to tell it is that I’ve met someone whose great grandparents were younger than my mom.

  Of course at the time I first met this person they were a newborn. But by now could have kids if the pattern holds.

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  • protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have met someone’s whose grandparents wwre younger than my mom when she got pregnant

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• evidences@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I worked with a women years ago who was a grandma at 34. She had her first kid at 17 and her oldest had one at 17 also.

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  • zedgeist@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    a women

    Why is this typo so common?

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    • thedarkfly@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      English orthography is dumb as shit

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thats fine as long as YALL are happy

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  • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Having a kid at 13 is not fine

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