If voting patterns are any indication, people without children already tend to vote against education and childcare funding. Thank you for being an exception. As someone who works around kids and has many friends who do, I can’t emphasize enough the difference that just a little more funding can make to improving the lives of children - and by extension society at large.
People who are disconnected from it don’t see the direct connection between, say, teacher morale and support, and how well students do. If the teachers in a system are always stressed because they’re underpaid, always scrounging for supplies, and in charge of too large a classroom, everyone in the class suffers. And when kids with emotional disorders spike because there is no support for parents, they soak up all the attention, and students who might be fine start floundering because the staff is busy trying to keep a leash on the poor kid who is acting out because his parents are fucked up.
As a married non-parent in their 40s I dont think what you said is true at all. I know a lot of people my age and older without children and none of them vote against those things unless they are voting straight ticket republican. I dont think child status has anything to do with that mentality.
Idk. In my area, child free tend to be educated, liberal leaning. Even the older ones. The religious, no birth control types tend to be the conservative, anti government programs types. Theythe religious conservatives also seem to be a lot more likely to have the “I got mine so fuck you” mentality, At least from what I see.
Plenty of people who have had children and raised them are against paying school taxes after their kids leave school. The number of times I have heard Grand parents talk about unfair it is that they have to pay taxes on schools is insane. Source: lived in a community where the average age was 72.
If voting patterns are any indication, people without children already tend to vote against education and childcare funding. Thank you for being an exception. As someone who works around kids and has many friends who do, I can’t emphasize enough the difference that just a little more funding can make to improving the lives of children - and by extension society at large.
People who are disconnected from it don’t see the direct connection between, say, teacher morale and support, and how well students do. If the teachers in a system are always stressed because they’re underpaid, always scrounging for supplies, and in charge of too large a classroom, everyone in the class suffers. And when kids with emotional disorders spike because there is no support for parents, they soak up all the attention, and students who might be fine start floundering because the staff is busy trying to keep a leash on the poor kid who is acting out because his parents are fucked up.
Do you have a source for your initial claim? That is something I have never heard before, and I taught for 13 years.
Really? This isn’t true in my community. Childfree people know that well educated children will make their future better and they vote like it.
As a married non-parent in their 40s I dont think what you said is true at all. I know a lot of people my age and older without children and none of them vote against those things unless they are voting straight ticket republican. I dont think child status has anything to do with that mentality.
Idk. In my area, child free tend to be educated, liberal leaning. Even the older ones. The religious, no birth control types tend to be the conservative, anti government programs types.
Theythe religious conservatives also seem to be a lot more likely to have the “I got mine so fuck you” mentality, At least from what I see.Edit to clarify something.
Plenty of people who have had children and raised them are against paying school taxes after their kids leave school. The number of times I have heard Grand parents talk about unfair it is that they have to pay taxes on schools is insane. Source: lived in a community where the average age was 72.
The empathy deficit in this country is what’s killing us all.
This comment is the one we should be talking about. We all lack empathy, at least politically and socially.
It’s the sickness we should be treating, instead of constantly triaging all the symptoms.