5618 People Who Don't Want Kids...
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
I explore the influence of modern comforts on parenthood decisions and suggest that contemporary concerns often stem from a reluctance to confront life's realities. Key indicators of a well-raised child include their ability to engage meaningfully with others, which reflects their upbringing.
Throughout the discussion, I emphasize the importance of dismantling adult-child hierarchies to foster open communication. Ultimately, I stress parents' responsibility to empower their children and hope this conversation inspires listeners to reflect on their values regarding family and personal choices within society.
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| 0:00.0 | All righty. Questions from free domain.locals.com. |
| 0:05.3 | Is this a fair way to gauge if a child has been well-parented, asking whether or not they want to have their own family and children someday? |
| 0:12.7 | In other words, is it possible that a well-parented kid would not want to be a parent when they grow up? |
| 0:17.4 | Yeah, I mean, as you become a parent, it becomes progressively more important. |
| 0:21.5 | Well, I actually say it's very important to begin with to figure out which children are raised well |
| 0:26.2 | or not, because the kid's security and happiness and all of that depends upon them having |
| 0:31.8 | reasonably decent friends and all of that. So it is time for rank prejudice time. This is just, I'm not saying there's |
| 0:39.8 | some big rational argument behind this. I'm just telling you straight up. For me, people who don't |
| 0:46.6 | want kids are weird and depressed. There's something to me so foundationally wrong with people who don't want to have kids. |
| 0:56.6 | And I'm not talking about people who struggle to have kids or people who want the kids but can't |
| 1:00.7 | find the right person. I mean, people who just like straight up antinatalists don't want to have |
| 1:05.2 | kids. And it's incomprehensible to me as a whole. And of course, I can't help but think of the four billion years of evolution that got us to where we are, |
| 1:15.7 | and it just takes one selfish person to break the chain. |
| 1:19.5 | It just takes one selfish person. |
| 1:21.3 | It's such, like all of our ancestors reproduce. |
| 1:24.4 | That's why we're here. |
| 1:25.5 | Every single one of her ancestors reproduced, |
| 1:28.0 | and they reproduced with the general idea and goal that other people were going to |
| 1:34.0 | continue on the line. Right. It's the old question of if you knew ahead of time that you |
| 1:42.0 | had, you and your wife had some genetic, whatever, that if you had kids, all of your kids |
| 1:48.0 | would be sterile? Would you have kids? I think a lot of people would certainly have some pretty |
| 1:53.1 | significant doubts about that. Is it worth having kids if you know your kids are going to be sterile? |
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