cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/28051610

Childhood maltreatment often continues from one generation to the next, perpetuating the cycle of abuse and depression. In a bid to promote healthier parent-child relationships, researchers from the University of Fukui compared mothers who engaged in maltreatment with those who did not, revealing that childhood trauma increases emotional empathy and depressive symptoms, raising the risk of abusive parenting. Their findings highlight the need for mental health support and parenting programs to help break this cycle.

A growing number of Latin American women are choosing not to give birth in a radical departure from the traditional family roles that have long dominated in the region. -

I don't have any, I don't want any. But I work with them as part of my job, sometimes all the way down to babies, and damn if I don't love 'em all the same.

I guess it's just nice to have the best of both worlds: the freedom of childfree life and the benefit of being able to play with them, because they are genuinely adorable and fun.

(I realize people probably don't care; I'm mostly posting to post in the name of generating more fediverse content)

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58875792

Holy shit, talk about everything people hate about Americans wrapped into a single person. Zero empathy for other people around her, so selfish that she twists herself into thinking she's right, and worse tries to gaslight the reader into thinking they're wrong for ever thinking about other people or respect.

It reminds me of the first time I was in DC. I visited the WW2 memorial and it was one of the first times it hit me, I had multiple family members in the war, and I was walking around to the states. Serene. Peaceful, reflecting. Then a family came by and two kids got in the pool. And worse the family laughed and started taking pictures. One of the most disrespectful things I've ever seen, just spitting in the face of the people who had died.

Basically they're completely miserable and evil. Their life revolves around annoying me, and they both stay at home all day. I think the husband might work from home but honestly, could be that neither works at all.

I don't have a problem with this except for the fact that when I had a work from home customer service position I had to quit because they wouldn't stop banging crap and having nervous breakdowns cause I guess they couldn't stand hearing my voice. Not to mention it literally sounds like a zoo 24/7, I've never met more unhinged children and I think something is actually mentally wrong with them. They will both cry at least 20 times a day, literally screetching and they sound MISERABLE, it's not shrieks of joy.

Moving is NOT an option (long story). I haven't slept in literal years, their children both literally SCREAM at the top of their lungs in the middle of the night regularly too. If they don't wake me up, their parents slamming the doors full force do. It's honestly t

Good news! Article is paywalled but

https://archive.md/CWwUB (archived link)

Three more EU member states — including the most populous, Germany — have joined the list of countries with “ultra-low” fertility rates, highlighting the extent of the region’s demographic challenges.

Official statistics show Germany’s birth rate fell to 1.35 children per woman in 2023, below the UN’s “ultra-low” threshold of 1.4 — characterising a scenario where falling birth rates become tough to reverse.

Estonia and Austria also passed under the 1.4 threshold, joining the nine EU countries — including Spain, Greece and Italy — that in 2022 had fertility rates below 1.4 children per woman.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29563625

In over 30 years of practice, Dr. Errol Billinkoff rarely saw a man without kids come into his Winnipeg clinic to get a vasectomy. But since the pandemic began, he says it's become an almost daily occurrence.

And he's not alone.

"At first, I thought I was the only one who was noticing this," Billinkoff, who brought a no-scalpel vasectomy procedure to Winnipeg in the early 1990s, told CBC News in a November interview.

"But I am part of an international chat group where doctors who do vasectomies participate and the topic came up, and it's like everybody notices it."

Welp, will they come after this Lemmy sub? /s

Following on from this post

https://slrpnk.net/post/14377077

https://archive.is/fhpYd