To understand why 30-somethings feel like they're struggling financially, the ABC analysed five factors — housing, healthcare, debt, tax, and income. The data reveals this generation is caught in an economic perfect storm.

Feels bad man

  • @[email protected]
    -23•8 months ago

    “I would love to have a child, but I don’t think I could do it as one person with the costs of childcare and everything … "

    Um, did someone forget to factor the co-parent in, or is voluntary single parenting en vogue?

    • @[email protected]
      16•8 months ago

      Marriage and long term relationship rates have alao been plummeting along side every other “milestone” indicator. Obviously women have a much easier time becoming a single parent than men do, but single parents exist.

      • @[email protected]
        4•8 months ago

        I’m aware they exist, but the way it was phrased made it sound like that’s the plan all along.

      • @[email protected]
        -19•8 months ago

        I mean, for every female single parent there is a male single parent so your logic does not follow

        • @[email protected]
          8•8 months ago

          I’m a single guy. I have to go through an adoption process if i wanted to become a parent this year. That’s a lengthy process with background checks, home inspections,and placement surveys that are taxing, exhausting, and dehumanizing.

          My sister is a single woman, she just needs to find a guy to sperm her up. They guy doesn’t even have to know that he impregnated her. Finding unknown fathers is a notoriously difficult task, even with modern genetic testing.