From a pretty early age I decided I didn't want to get married or have kids cuz both my parents seemed utterly miserable. For a long time I found it weird anyone wanted to do it at all, why would you want to be trapped with someone you hate who you get into screaming arguments all the time?

And it's not just me, you see a lot of jokes online about people like playing that one scene from Marriage Story while playing old N64 games for nostalgia.

I think the experience of seeing our own parents be so miserable maybe soured a lot of us on starting families.

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[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

That's definitely a part of it, I'm a millenial and in my parent's circles I know of a grand total of maybe one happy boomer marriage (and it's not my parents).

Personally I just plain old don't want kids, might consider it tho if my partner wanted it (she doesn't thankfully) and there wasn't a climate catastrophe coming.