Originally Posted by
downhillmaster
Millenials are avoiding raising families because they are extremely selfish.
My daughter, a cash-strapped PhD student in Ireland, claims it would be selfish to bring more consumers into the world for her and her man's personal amusement. I have tried to convince her that producing more high-functioning people from stable families is a service to humanity. Her counter is that she is concerned with the wider ecosystem. I don't think selfishness-altruism dimension explains much about this issue.
Data suggest that millenials are also having less sex than boomers did at that age. Is this due to social media and networked devices, as some like to claim, or are there basic socio-biological forces at work?