In 2011, the U.S. birth rate dipped to the lowest ever recorded. This is indeed something new.

I just had a baby and after going through pregnancy dealing with my supposedly "good" insurance company (seriously that's like saying a "good heart attack" isn't it?) I am more socialist than fucking ever. Fuck Obama, fuck big business, fuck big banks, fuck health insurance companies, also FUCK HOSPITALS. While…

This happened to us. Heed my warning do not have children...oh geez probably ever. WE had baby number two and were probably lower middle class and we were expecting another baby to be expensive. We were NOT expecting to pay for a 2 month old's open heart surgery. We're just now just barley getting on our feet but…

So I discriminate. Sue me.

Good points! My dad came from a dirt-poor family of 10. I asked him how the hell his parents could afford that many on a tiny income, and he responded, "Well, these days it's less socially acceptable to let your kids wander the neighborhood throwing rocks at cars. In my day, that's just what our parents did. "

I'm sorry. They get $6,000 a month? Did I understand that correctly?

Not wanting to have kids does NOT make you a horrible person; it makes you a person who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to live her life the way she wants to.

Sundresses won't take care of you when you're old, sure, but face it: your kids probably won't, either.

Im going to have as many kids as I can so I can groom them into stars and I can live off of their wealth like a parasite.

Although the economy undoubtedly plays the major role in the fallen birth rate, I'd bet a small part of it is also due to a change in the culture - some people don't actually feel the urge to procreate, but in the past, cultural norms have dictated that bringing up children is the most meaningful thing you can do in…

As a single person who earns well over the national average for a couple, I can't even imagine how anyone affords a child.

It really speaks to the growing class divide in this country that so many of us (me included!) can't even imagine how people can afford to have children. And I'm not talking children + expensive summer camps + 5+ bedroom mansion + designer diaper bags. I am a really minimalist, low-maintenance person. Like, I'm an old…

Or maybe, people just don't want to have babies... feels like the economy is just an excuse.

people who give their babies mashed up Flamin' Hot Cheetos mixed with Mountain Dew Code Red

That's awesome. Not the fact that they're being sexist asshats, but that these women they're putting down apparently burned their asses in their own game.

"I want to be able to scratch myself, curse and play like the barbarian I am. Give me one court and leave me alone."

Exactly. Because if there's any women on the planet that are sensitive flowers, it's New Yorkers who are likely to be of Italian heritage.

The explanatory lines are actually at the end of the NYT story:

All I'm hearing is "wah wah wah the feminists are winning, and I'm going to be dead soon."