“I definitely want to have kids,” Branden Estrada, an 18-year-old college freshman, told me. “I had such a good family life that I’ve always thought about what it’s going to be like for me to have kids of my own.”
Estrada is excited to share his favorite Transformers and Spider-Man movies with his kids, and he’s put some of his old toys aside to pass down to them. He knows he’s up to the task, because he grew up with a younger sister. “I’m used to having someone to take care of,” he told me.
He even has a name picked out: Stavros, to honor his family’s Greek heritage. “I thought it was just a cool name, because you can shorten it to be like Stav,” he said.Key takeawaysKey takeaways
- Some polls show that Gen Z men are more likely to want kids than Gen Z women.
- Other research has shown Gen Z men expressing conservative ideas about gender, suggesting they might expect female partners to take the lead in child care.
- But there’s also evidence that younger fathers are doing more caregiving than men of previous generations — and that trend could continue with Gen Z.
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What about Gen Z women though? Pretty sure I've seen some stats showing that the worldview divide between men and women is stronger in Gen Z than any other generation. Or something along those lines.
I suspect dudes are particularly obsessed with building AI as part of their procreation drive, which is probably accelerated by women not wanting to have children (modern men all else equal would make the same choice tbf). If we can't make people, we'll make people-like things.
this?