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Millennials are called the generation that "killed" the birth rate, are getting dogs instead of children, and are running away from playgrounds—but what if it's not a matter of selfishness and childishness? In this video, we explore how economics, evolution, and the cult of parenting have transformed children from the meaning of life into a source of anxiety—and why "hating" children actually speaks more about your love for them than you think.

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00:00 — Start
01:15 — Inappropriate Questions
02:12 — Millennials Are the Longest-Birthless Generation
03:07 — WHERE ARE THE CATS?
03:30 — How the Economy Affects the Birth Rate
06:34 — WHEN TO GET MARRIED? WHEN TO HAVE CHILDREN?
10:38 — Why do we get so annoyed by children's cries?
14:20 — When was childhood invented?
15:12 — How were children treated in the Middle Ages?
18:06 — How birth control changed history
19:23 — How do children influence women's careers?
22:20 — Is the ability to bear children the cause of misogyny?
23:26 — How the state controls our bodies
25:25 — If you haven't given birth, you're not a woman
26:00 — How did childfree people come to be?
28:12 — Where did the "Yagamother" stereotype come from?
32:07 — Do smart people have fewer children?
34:06 — Are we dying out?
36:23 — Why do we live?
38:17 — Is it better not to have been born?
39:23 — How childfree people destroyed civilizations
41:55 — Conclusions
45:13 — Mikhail Chernyak's captions and bloopers

Research and articles:
1. China's fertility rate has fallen to one, continuing a long decline that began before and continued after the one-child policy (2025): https://clck.ru/3TthVo
2. South Korea's fertility rate sinks to record low despite $270 billion in incentives (2024): https://clck.ru/3TthbR
3. Evidence for a Caregiving Instinct: Rapid Differentiation of Infant from Adult Vocalizations Using Magnetoencephalography (2016): https://clck.ru/3Tthhe
4. The Impact of Cultural Values ​​on the Association Between Family Relationships and Children's Life Satisfaction. A Comparison of Children in Two-Parent Families Across 39 Countries (2024): https://clck.ru/3Tthq2
5. The impact of motherhood on monthly employee earnings and employment status, England: April 2014 to December 2022 (2025): https://clck.ru/3Tti5x
6. Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty? (2007): https://clck.ru/3TtiB4
7. “Maybe baby?” The employment risk of potential parenthood (2021): https://clck.ru/3TtiKi
8. Parental brain: cerebral areas activated by infant cries and faces. A comparison between different populations of parents and not (2015): https://clck.ru/3TtiSM
9. Towards a neural model of infant cry perception (2019): https://clck.ru/3TtiTH
10. Neural pathways of maternal responding: systematic review and meta-analysis (2018): https://clck.ru/3TtiUJ
11. Neurobiology of Parental Regulation of the Infant and Its Disruption by Trauma (2022): https://clck.ru/3TtiVU
12. The transition to motherhood: linking hormones, brain and behavior (2023): https://clck.ru/3TtiWy
13. Maternal brain in the process of maternal-infant bonding: Review of the literature (2020): https://clck.ru/3TtiXr
14. Neural pathways of maternal responding: systematic review and meta-analysis (2019): https://clck.ru/3TtiYz
15. Neuroendocrinology of Parental Response to Baby-Cry (2015): https://clck.ru/3TtiZv
16. Pregnancy leads to long-lasting changes in human brain structure (2017): https://clck.ru/3TtieH
17. A systematic review of the state of literature relating parental general cognitive ability and number of offspring (2018): https://clck.ru/3TtihF
18. Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey (2021): https://clck.ru/3TtkW3