While the birth rate continues to decline in developed countries, a TikToker has created outrage on the web by asserting that parents who choose to work prioritize their professional careers over their children. We’ll explain!
This is a subject that has been the subject of much discussion in the news for several months. The birth rate in France as well as in developed countries is falling more and more. It has never been so low in France, a number which has been decreasing since 2011 with a slight rebound in 2021, with the Covid crisis in sight. A situation also observed in the United States, people choose to have fewer children or even not to have any at all!
A trend which is justified by many factors such as the cost of education, health, living but also career development for women. This is what reveals a survey carried out by ANewsweek among 1,500 adults in April 2023 which asked them: “If the cost of living were lower, would you consider having a child? » More than 30% of respondents answered yes to this question, a rate which rises to 50% among Millennials aged between 18 and 34 who do not hesitate to share their hesitations on social networks. It is in this context that a TikToker created outrage on the web after giving her opinion on the situation.
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The controversial comments of the tiktoker
While the cost of raising a child has only increased in recent years and authorities in the United States estimate that a child born after 2015 costs nearly $233,610 during their first 17 years, a 22-year-old childless TikToker refuted these assertions by justifying that this cost comes from families who “prioritize” their careers by paying for childcare instead of staying at home to take care of them. She insinuates that today’s generation of Millennials are themselves choosing not to prioritize having children when they could do so if they wanted to by giving the example of their own family. She says her father chose to stretch his salary by supporting his mother and their 11 children while she chose to stay home to raise them.
A video which quickly became public and which created the indignation of many Internet users who did not spare it from their criticisms in the comments. While they denounce its moralizing and guilt-ridden tone, they assert that it is also unfair to compare the financial situation of Millennials to those of previous generations. In addition to having seen the cost of housing explode in recent decades, wages have not followed this trend. For example, in 2023, the median price of purchasing a house in the United States was $412,000. , or 5.5 times the 2022 median household income of $74,580. In 1980, the median home price was $47,200, which was only 2.2 times the 1980 median household income of $21,020.
A cost on top of higher education, many Millennials are paying their student loan debt as well as child care costs. Even if they choose to leave their job to take care of children, it is not only a loss of salary but also their seniority, their retirement pensions, as well as their social security coverage.
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