The correlation between smartphones and delayed reproduction part 2

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Last thread ran out of pages.

It would appear the birth rate in India has also decreased when it used to be super high (hence having a billion people)
CRED founder Kunal shah seems to agree internet may have played its part.

As for the posters adamant that nothing had changed in the uk in the last 25 years and claiming they didn’t know anyone who had children at 25 back then. Here’s some statistics for you:

United Kingdom (England and Wales): Exact cohort data tracks that 33% of women born in 1972 (who turned 29 in 2001) had at least one child by age 25. For the cohort turning 25 exactly in 2001 (born in 1976), childbearing hit a generational low point, where fewer than 30% of women had given birth by their 25th birthday.

So if nothing had changed about 60 out of 200 people I went to school with would have had kids by now

Why does that matter though? None of us will be here in a few hundred years so why would we care if the human race went extinct? And if we did care surely we'd hope we went out "with a whimper" and not from some mass crisis event causing huge suffering?

You’re reading comprehension isn’t great I’ve only said the internet may have paid a part I haven’t said it’s the only reason. Clearly this has touched a nerve because why the personal attacks? Not sure what nerve it could have touched though.

Endless posters saying they don’t know anyone who had children before 25 or 30, well fair enough but it dosent match up with what I see in the real world ie ages of my friends parents. So not sure why you think it’s gospel?

Anyway shame you have all that student debt and still can’t comprehend what you’re reading

Stop digging, you’re literally proving my point - I didn’t say anything about student debt, you’re lacking very basic skills that should be gained at GCSE because you had a child instead. Forget uni lol it’s worse than that.

And I didn’t say anything about not having GCSEs, I did them while pregnant and probably got better grades then you. I also never said phones were the only reason for this I just said it could be one of the many reasons along with contraception and expensive rent etc.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/10/gen-z-women-first-child-age-35/

Gen Z (my generation) are forecasted to have their first child around 35 on average. So I’m not talking shit unlike the poster who posted an inaccurate link trying to claim the average first child was born when the mother was 29 in 1938. When that was true for all births not first births.

Why are you so hostile over this anyway? Are you the parent of a child who spends 8 hours a day online?

Unless you got all A*s then no, you didn’t do better than me. If you got good grades then what’s your excuse for all this nonsense? Not sure why you’re so hung up on the one mistake of one user when you’ve posted pages and pages of bullshit

You actually said phones were the reason many times, which considering any small change to reproductive age superseded smart phones it’s clearly not a sound conclusion to make.

I literally never said it was the only reason

Wgat have I said that’s bullshit? That I barely know anyone my age with kids? That most of my mums friends had had children by 25? Just because you don’t like it (for whatever god unknown reason) doesn’t mean it’s bullshit.

Can you explain how you know the reproductive status of all 200 people you went to school with?

To be fair your first thread you only mentioned phones originally and this thread title only mentions phones.

or watching porn and their right hand being active, so to speak.

I mean sure there’s probably one or two who’ve slipped completely off the radar but generally I’m friends with people and they are friends with other people who are friends with other people so it all connects up. Anytime someone has a child it’s a big thing I find out about, tragically two people have died. It was big news when someone became a teacher someone else a model and when someone started an only fans. I’m pretty sure I’d know.

Yeah not much thought went into the title of the second thread I probably could have worded it better. I just think it goes without saying that more people are going to university than in the past (though it’s still only about half), contraception, price of rent etc. There’s been debate about this sort of thing in the past and one reason I’ve never seen mentioned is the internet. Again not saying it’s the only reason. But some people spend 8 hours a day on their phones. Once you factor in the time spent at work that’s nearly all their free time.

How unusual.

Is it really?

Yeah. I’m a little older than you but I have no interest in sharing my life news with people I barely liked 20 years ago.

Well maybe when it’s been 20 years we’ll be more atomised for now people talk

Yes.