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Young people souring on having kids might partially be due to Gen Z’s higher rates of depression.

Gen Z is unique, with their pessimism contrasting with Millennials’ optimism and their slow and sheltered upbringings so different from that of Gen X’ers. However, Gen Z shows early signs of having something in common with Boomers: the unapologetic desire to change a system they believe isn’t working anymore.

Gen Z is also less optimistic about their personal prospects.

After spending much of their formative years on Zoom, Gen Z favors choice and flexibility.

Cue a young Gen X’er rolling her eyes and muttering, “Whatever.”

So, after an adolescence of positivity and happiness, Millennial adults were more likely to be depressed and more likely to die deaths of despair. Why