"A serious research question I'd appreciate your feedback about, concerning child care experience, young people not having kids, demographic collapse, & pronatalism: When I went to college in the 1980s, most other students had substantial experience of child care, through looking after younger siblings & cousins, doing babysitting jobs for neighbors, & including younger kids in informal group activities. Now, when I teach psych classes & talk about parenting, families, & child development, it's apparent that young adults often have thousands of hours of experience with social media & video games -- but many of them have almost no experience caring for babies, toddlers, or kids. So, I wonder how much of the delay in reproduction & drop in child numbers is due to a simple lack of childcare experience among Millennials & Gen Z, rather than them just freaking out about climate change, or prioritizing credentialism, careerism, & consumption over family, or becoming less religious, or buying into gender feminist ideology, or whatever. Maybe it's simply harder to decide to do something that seems very difficult (like raising kids) if you don't have any experience of doing the thing successfully. What do you all think? How much of a factor is lack of childcare experience in explaining demographic collapse?"
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