Millennial mom dread

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. population is aging as Americans choose to have fewer children or none at all. We’ll get into the many reasons millennials hesitate to jump into motherhood and how to change the narrative around parenting. Plus, fewer children mean fewer people to take care of our aging population in a country already dealing with a senior care crisis. And, Patti LaBelle’s infamous performance of “This Christmas” at the 1996 National Christmas Tree Lighting makes us smile.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Aging America faces a senior care crisis” from Axios

- “How millennials learned to dread motherhood” from Vox

- Threads post from Business Insider’s Kali Hays

- “Patti LaBelle’s Disastrous Tree Lighting Performance Is the Only Good Christmas Tradition” from Esquire

- “Kiwi Eggs Hatch in the Wild Near New Zealand’s Capital” from the New York Times

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John from Hamden, Maine. I was never really interested in economics, but after finding
0:09.4	make me smart and listening to every podcast or economics on tap on YouTube each Friday,
0:15.0	I have a better appreciation of the topic and interface with tech and society.
0:19.0	The hosts make it fun and realistic in their explanations and how it relates to things I care about,
0:25.2	like addressing climate change and making a better world for all people.
0:29.8	Please join me and make a gift to support Marketplace today at Marketplace.org slash donate.
0:36.0	Thanks. Uh, all right, I'm good to go.
0:45.0	Uh, I'm good to go.
0:47.0	Well, okay, then, I guess we'll go. I can't believe you're anywhere already.
0:52.0	Here we go.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:54.0	Okay.
0:55.0	Everybody I'm Kyle Rizdahl.
0:57.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.
1:00.0	And I'm Kimberly Adams.
1:01.0	Thank you everyone for joining us on this Monday, December the 4th. It's our final week before we go
1:07.2	A little hiatus a little break for the holidays. Wait, are you so excited to get away from me? Oh, stop. I just need a break, man. I need to unplug and do all this thing.
1:17.0	All right, we're going to do what we usually do on Monday, some news, some smiles, and then we will be on our way.
1:23.8	Ms Adams, what are you got?
1:26.4	Two articles about demographic trends in the United States.
1:32.2	One of them is courtesy of Axios and the other one is from
1:36.9	Vox and was flagged very helpfully by Rosie Hughes over on the tech team.
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