• Tunnelvision [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        8 months ago

        Yes but we all know that statistic is already skewed due to people having children at an older age than past generations. If they’re reaching the average childbearing age now, that’s already older than past averages. I guess I’m more so commenting on the part where they said how it was possible to have statistics on this when Gen Z is barely at average childbearing age. It’s possible because they’re comparing it to past generations.

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      8 months ago

      Roughly two-thirds of 25-29 year olds are childless, and we have no idea what % of that two-thirds will choose to have kids in their 30’s

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          8 months ago

          I thought your point is gen z’s old enough now to have stats on if they’ll have kids or not. I’m saying we’ll have to wait until they’re several years older to get an idea on if they’re never having them or just pushing it off

          Also, the oldest, borderline gen zers will have very similar numbers to the youngest millennials. you’d wanna get a scope of middle gen z and the average zoomer is still like 19/20

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            8 months ago

            The point of the initial poster was that how can you know what the trend for having children at whatever age is already for Gen Z if they just reached the average age to have children? But they’re already trending older than the average of past generations. You don’t really need to wait another 5 or 10 years, the trend is already there and the causes for that trend don’t look to be going away anytime soon.