Boomers were only capable of teaching their sons to be deleteriously subservient to women and their daughters to be pseudo-bisexual hot chip eating liars, and you wonder why the birth rate's been declining?
Actually I'm gonna add some additional thoughts. I don't think this is surprising because every single facet of American life has the message DON'T HAVE BABIES.
High school: don't have babies, you don't want to be a teen parent and your baby daddy will abandon you anyway
Church: don't have babies, you and your filthy spawn will be sentenced to hell 5ever, WHORE. Now bend over and take it up the ass from the priest.
Work: don't have babies, you don't get paternity leave/we'll fire you for taking maternity leave, your projects are more important than children and also you're a traitor if you have babies and take time off from work and also if you take time off work than you're a HORRIBLE UNRELIABLE WORKER that isn't PRODUCING ENOUGH.
Social media: don't have babies if you aren't married, single parents only exist to parade their children on social media for ass pats also children are loud and disgusting also that woman totally cheated on you so it isn't even yours/don't bother having a kid because your man will immediately flip his shit screaming that you're a cheating whore and that it isn't his and when he demands the paternity test he'll run crying to reddit after you leave him because he doesn't understand why calling you a cheating whore puts you off him completely even after it comes back that he indeed the father
Dating: don't have babies if you want a viable mate, also if you try to date when you're twenty your partner will refuse to have children and cite his/her "career" as the reason and will say "I want kids after I'm 30." If your partner gets pregnant panic and cry on social media about how your life is over while she runs to the convenience store to get plan b/cry on social media about how your babby daddy is leaving you/cry on social media about you're getting an abortion and he isn't supporting/cry on social media about how she's getting an abortion even after you blocked her and ghosted her and told her you didn't want a kid/cry on social media about how you're getting a paternity test because IT CAN'T POSSIBLY BE YOURS REEEEEEE wait what she got an abortion?! but she never asked me if I could, not that I care because it obviously isn't my kid BUT THE PRINCIPLE OF IT ALL
It's a self enforcing problem. Society has developed a phobia around children and don't want to disrupt their adult lives to have children. Adults don't trust each other enough to have kids together especially if they themselves are the products of a messy divorce.
I think I agree with the idea that men and women don't trust each other to have kids, but I disagree with broad strokes of your argument.
High school/college: they either teach kids not to have sex (and nothing else) or they teach kids how to have "safe sex". Issue is that in either case, they're
not actually teaching them the gravity of sex-- it's either "don't have sex because Jesus will be sad and all the cool kids
aren't getting laid" or "here's some simple tools you can use to eliminate the chance of you having a child" in the same curriculum where they teach children about STDs. Especially when they get to college, it's not that they're not having sex-- it's that they're not
reproducing, and they have various tools at their disposal to decouple the enjoyment of sex from its gravity.
Church: Churchgoers are either elderly and married or young and married.
Or actual children.
The bachelor(ette, especially) is an anomaly in any given congregation. At any rate, they're not discouraging their young to have children-- they're discouraging their young to have sex
outside of marriage. Not so much because we're totally unable to help ourselves as humans, but because their approach to teaching the young this is the same as the abstinence-only ed detailed above, this has mixed results.
Work: Your mileage may vary, but that's not unrealistic.
Social media: the people in high school and college also use social media, and the most maladjusted people have the loudest voices.
Dating:
Oh boy.
I've gone on a whole spiel about this
in another thread, but the long and short of it is that we don't know what meaningful love is anymore. For many, love is no more than a throbbing feeling in the chest, groin, or both. Sex in western society, as it stands, is overglorified mutual masturbation in practice. The various methods of birth control that we now have further enable the trivialization of the only act man can do to reproduce. Meanwhile, sex (not reproduction,
sex) has been exalted as a rite of passage for men and women alike-- it's gotten to the point that we see men ideologically neutering themselves in a feverish attempt to become more viable for female attention, because they figure that feminist ideals are what women are into (success is mixed, as this transmogrification causes them to become people that would regardless be largely unattractive to women). Boomers, and society at large have taught their children shallow and bastardized ideas about love that suffer from not being grounded in reality, and men and women alike also largely suffer from not knowing how to be lovable people-- meanwhile, we've done away with established subcultural spheres that would have assisted in teaching men how to be men and women how to be women (this is part of why we've seen various MGTOW/PUA/incel discussion boards-- it's an inferior replacement for that, inferior because the social venues lack the warmth of in person interaction, and also because the behaviors and attitudes being passed down and encouraged are various levels of maladaptive).
We also increasingly infantilize our men and women, but especially our women. More freedoms for women are good, but co-requisite responsibility isn't consistently (if ever) paired with these conferrals.
I think constantly putting off the prospect of marriage and children in the high valuation of their career is a major factor as well, but I think you're extremely overblowing the role of social media in this.
