The End of the Lines
Boomer feminists have killed off thousands of families
Here is what can only be considered good news. The feminism and the belief in sexual equality of the Boomers has completely eradicated a substantial percentage of the more retarded genetic lines that proved so susceptible to buying into the false narratives of the Sixties and Seventies.
Christine Kutt, 69, had her only child at 42, after years of thinking she did not want to become a parent. The experience transformed her, she said, and she has loved being a mother. But her daughter is adamant she does not want children, pointing to her pessimism about the state of the world and climate change. Ms. Kutt, who is divorced and lives in the suburbs of Chicago, vacillates between feeling supportive of her daughter’s choice and quietly hoping she might change her mind.
She dreams of being surrounded by grandchildren as she ages, passing on to them her family recipes and love of rock ‘n’ roll. Even when her daughter was little, she envisioned such a future. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s so much fun to teach her all this stuff! And someday she’ll have children, and I’ll be able to teach them,’” she said.
Parents who are hoping for grandchildren are likely at an age when they’re experiencing a “shrinkage of time,” with fewer years ahead of them than behind them, said Maggie Mulqueen, a psychologist based in Wellesley, Mass. That can mean wrestling with existential questions about their lives and legacies, she said.
Dr. Mulqueen, who has counseled many baby boomers through their longing for grandchildren, has found that the decision to remain child-free can strain the parent-child relationship, particularly when a parent who has dreamed of grandchildren fails to separate any personal disappointment they feel from a sense of being disappointed in their children.
Ms. Kutt, wary of making that mistake, does not talk about the topic with her daughter often. “It’s been made perfectly clear to me that this subject is not to be discussed,” she said, though sometimes she cannot help herself. Ms. Kutt tells her daughter that the woman she is 10 years from now will not recognize the person she is today, and nudges her to keep her options open.
The situation can feel like a personal rejection for older parents, Dr. Mulqueen said. Some of her clients ask themselves: “Did I mess up as a parent so much that my kids don’t want to have children?” she said.
The answer, of course, is yes, yes you did mess up as a parent if your kids don’t want to have children. You mess up as a parent if you teach your children, or allow them to be taught, things that are observably and obviously untrue. You mess up as a parent if you teach your children to abandon the traditions of your ancestors, the very traditions that allowed you to exist at all in the first place.
Once more, we’re seeing that the Boomers are likely the worst generation in all of human history.
Evolution by natural selection is mathematically impossible materialist cope, but to borrow the pseudo-scientific language of the innumerate biologists, neither you nor your children can be considered genetically fit if they prove to barren, whether that is due to physical or psychological reasons.
Teach your children “four is good, six is better” and the future will belong to us.
A problem was in the 90s there was a big push to stop teen pregnancy. They bombarded the girls with the message that having kids was a massive pain that crushed everything in your life. It worked. Teen pregnancy went down, but then as the girls grew older they kept believing that same message. All pregnancies went down.
“Did I mess up as a parent so much that my kids don’t want to have children?”
My two younger siblings (31 & 29) have decided to be childfree. My parents originally planned on two because my dad felt there were too many people on the earth but each couple was "allowed" to replace themselves. Then my sister came along.
I was strongly leaning towards a childfree lifestyle until I finally separated from my parents and shirked my liberal "values," became a conservative Christian, got married, and now I'm 25 weeks with my third child in four years. I'm 34 (I'll be 35) and I regret wasting my best years in horrendous workplaces on the promise of building a "career" I've long since abandoned.
It's been strange. I moved 3000 miles away from my family, my sister stayed with my parents, and my brother and his girlfriend live about 8 hours away from them. My parents have a sudden gnawing desire for grandchildren and I'm the black sheep who moved away and the only one who has any.
I'm also the only one of 4 grandchildren to have made any great-grandchildren so far. My boomer aunt had none and my boomer uncle had one.
I haven't seen an ounce of genuine regret for how they've treated me, but they've been on their best behavior around my husband and I. Mostly. My mom can't help but fall into old habits after a lifetime of bullying, which is why we see them roughly annually. I'm the only one passing on my family legacy, but I'm also protecting my children from the family that damaged me so much I almost threw away my chance at becoming a mother.