The Success Narratives of Liberal Life Leave Little Room for Having Children

[Hume]

For young, secular, politically progressive men and women, having children has become something of an afterthought. Liberal conventional wisdom encourages people to spend their 20s on journeys of personal and professional self-discovery and self-fulfillment.

Over the past four years, we’ve conducted interviews and surveys with hundreds of young Americans about their attitudes toward having children. These conversations revealed that the success narratives of modern liberal life leave little room for having a family.

Opinion | The Success Narratives of Liberal Life Leave Little Room for Having Children

Progressives need to stop thinking of family as a conservative hobbyhorse.

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Typical right wing ideology. You are not allowed to be happy until you procreate.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

For young, secular, politically progressive men and women, having children has become something of an afterthought. Liberal conventional wisdom encourages people to spend their 20s on journeys of personal and professional self-discovery and self-fulfillment.

Over the past four years, we’ve conducted interviews and surveys with hundreds of young Americans about their attitudes toward having children. These conversations revealed that the success narratives of modern liberal life leave little room for having a family.

Opinion | The Success Narratives of Liberal Life Leave Little Room for Having Children

Progressives need to stop thinking of family as a conservative hobbyhorse.

www.nytimes.com

Typical right wing ideology. You are not allowed to be happy until you procreate.

Typical Left-wing ideology: Everything is about me and nobody else matters. Altruism is forced, not encouraged or applauded. But there is an up side. If the Leftists aren't breeding, they'll eventually disappear and their insane bullshit destructiveness on society will disappear with them.

 

[Hume]

Typical Left-wing ideology: Everything is about me and nobody else matters.

That is capitalism.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

That is capitalism.

Strange how that works isn't it? The Left hates capitalism except when it benefits them...

 

[Hume]

Strange how that works isn't it? The Left hates capitalism except when it benefits them...

I am a leftist and never said I hate capitalism.