Culture
Marriage And No Baby Carriage: Why An Increasing Number Of Young Adults Are Choosing Sterilization
The closely-held belief known as antinatalism – not that having kids is merely inconvenient, but morally and ethically wrong – has been steadily increasing in popularity in recent years.
By Gwen Farrell3 min read
Whereas our mothers and grandmothers had the excuse of making the countercultural Sexual Revolution a success by eliminating children and allowing women to stay in the workforce, the apparent logic of 2021 antinatalism is both predictable and apropos to our modern times: climate change. Not only is our planet speeding swiftly into environmental decline, at our own behest, but our own children are apparently directly proportional to how fast we meet that decline.