The argument is there's not much life training for having kids before you start, and even less for dealing with elderly parents.
So a lot of people are blindsided by the reality of either, and both together can be unimaginably difficult.
Aside from cash and life stability issues - both very real - I suspect that one of the reasons for the drop in birth rates is that because of the Internet, more people are seeing what parenting involves before they start.
Previously it was more of a rosy and aspirational "Let's have kids!", now it's "You mean I'll be severely sleep deprived for years?!"
Robots could help with all of this just by doing basic chores and automating daily bureaucracy.
In the best of all possible worlds that would free up more time for personal relationships, which can get very stressed by unavoidable demands that are basically a full-time job.
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The argument is there's not much life training for having kids before you start, and even less for dealing with elderly parents.
So a lot of people are blindsided by the reality of either, and both together can be unimaginably difficult.
Aside from cash and life stability issues - both very real - I suspect that one of the reasons for the drop in birth rates is that because of the Internet, more people are seeing what parenting involves before they start.
Previously it was more of a rosy and aspirational "Let's have kids!", now it's "You mean I'll be severely sleep deprived for years?!"
Robots could help with all of this just by doing basic chores and automating daily bureaucracy.
In the best of all possible worlds that would free up more time for personal relationships, which can get very stressed by unavoidable demands that are basically a full-time job.