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When couples disagree about having children due to climate change

My partner and I are trying to decide whether to have children while watching climate catastrophe unfold and we keep having the same circular conversation where I think it's cruel to bring kids into this world and they think giving up on the future is what's cruel.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are stuck between competing moral frameworks about reproduction in an uncertain world, each seeing the other's position as ethically compromised.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Intergenerational justice — what we owe the future?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.