Young adults say race, climate fears prevent them from starting families: ‘Shameful to want to have children’ [Video]

Some liberal Gen Z and millennial people of color told a gender studies professor that their concerns about race and climate change are preventing them from having children. 

The Los Angeles Times highlighted research from UC Riverside associate professor in the department of gender and sexuality studies, Jade S. Sasser. Sasser also hosts the “Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question” podcast. One 26-year-old Native American woman named Melanie told the professor she “struggles with whether it’s morally OK to have children.”

“With climate change, we’re the driving force of things breaking down, but then also, the planet’s going to do what the planet’s going to do… So… it almost feels, like, kind of shameful to want to have children,” she told the academic who wrote the piece. 

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