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by bentt 77 days ago
Let’s just focus on how cars and car culture are reducing birth rates. Nobody wants to chuck their kids into the back seat without a carseat any more. Laws aren’t the problem.
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These seem like particularly specific excuses. If you are not into having kids, there are many different ways to rationalize that (but why?). If you are into kids, you'd have to overcome all sorts of pain and suffering, car culture is by far not the worst of them.

(Father of 4, 39 y.o., non-religious.)

I was going to have more kids, but I didn't for the particular exact reasons I always am harping on about (in my case, nerfing beast hunter in WoW in 2018) ;)
Cars and car culture probably increased birth rates in the last few decades to begin with!
back seat? we were loose in the pickup truck!
You had a truck! Lucky! We just rolled around like billiard balls in a station wagon.
Luxury! Oh we used to dream about rolling around like billiard balls
My favorite scene in Life of Brian
Boomers took everything away from us.