Comments by "Granny Annie" (@grannyannie2948) on "Why People Aren't Having Children: Our Looming Demographic Crisis." video.

I'm Australian and I've been saying this for years. Feminism tripled the tax payers, mum, dad and the babysitter. Doubled the cost of housing. And reduced wages without decreasing consumerism. The upper echelon loved it. By the 1990s they'd got as many women out to work that they ever would. But they discovered that mass immigration had the same effect.
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In the 1970s in Australia my father, a factory worker bought a three bedroom house, supported a wife and three kids. We had two cars, and two holidays a year in a caravan.
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 @WatchingWilly For immigrant replacements
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I married young and delayed university until my kids were in primary school. I told my daughters to do the same. I was a grandmother by my mid forties. Since the 1970s in Australia the back of lecture halls were the reserve of nursing mothers. There needs to be a change in people's thinking.
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My parents had their first two children in a one bedroom house, with an outside toilet and only one power point.
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Hello from across the pond in Oz. I'm probably older, but I was a stay at home mum. In the 1980s they introduced a payment to married women to stay home to raise their own children. But inflation has destroyed it. $20 a week barely buys bread and butter these days. Apparently the government says women prefer subsidised daycare. As I see it the elites benifited immensely from feminism. It tripled the tax base, mum, dad and the babysitter. It doubled the cost of housing and the rich have real estate portfolios. And it reduced wages without decreasing consumerism. By the 90s they'd dragged every mother out to work. And then the realised they could replicate it every year with immigration.
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My parents wanted me to go straight from highschool to university. Instead I married young and delayed university until my kids were in primary school. I encouraged my daughters to delay university until they had babies. Really universities are very baby/child friendly. People live so long now delaying a career makes sense. This is alternative young women should be offered.
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You sound like a great parent. Can you help? In my country (Australia) it's quite normal for couples to live with parents until their circumstances improve. After all they only need space for a double bed and a cot. We have the same problem with unaffordable housing. I was a landlord for a few years after my mother died. Many just want enough rent to cover the mortgage. So it's the cost of housing that pushes up the price, not the other way around. And it's immigration pushing the price up.
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 @richardyates7280 Well said
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@EE12CSVT I have watched Mary several times. But I've been making this point for a very long time. I also like her friend Louise Perry who argues the sexual revolution was bad for women.
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@billmartins5545 Well atleast they are your own boomers. In my country it's foreigners buying them. My parents were boomers, they didn't have it easy to begin with either. I don't remember but they started off in a tiny caravan but it rotted. Then we lived with one of my grandmothers. Then we lived in a 10x10 foot shed. My mum was having another baby so we moved into a house. But the house only had one bedroom and only one power point in the whole house, no bathroom and the toilet was at the end of the yard. After a while there we could finally afford a house. How many caravans and sheds have you raised kids in lately?
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@Coastpsych_fi99 I disagree, now and even then, men were at more risk in marriage than are women. Here in Australia, had my husband wanted a divorce, the government would have paid for my, and my children's necessities. Or I could have got a job, or I could have began study, in which case the government would have paid for childcare, enough for my children and I to survive plus additional money to cover textbooks etc. As for retirement money the courts consider this when dividing assets. So women don't have much to worry about. If women in your country are forced to accept unplanned childlessness, due to these issues, feminists should be talking to politicians about ending these problems.
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PS It is possible to have one baby, or at least get married in a studio flat. Our ancestors lived in worse. You just need to be creative with your furnishing. I live near what was a motel and is now studio flats. Young couples often have their first child there.
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@looseycanon Pretty hard to live without water. And the government now favours migrants for the regions which means every tiny corner of the countryside where people can actually survive is equally diverse. Our last census shows that if you have a grandparent born in the country, even just one, you are a statistical minority and your vote doesn't matter. There are politicians who represent the Chinese voter, the Vietnamese voter etc. We nolonger have democracy in our own country.
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@looseycanon Foreigners speculating in our real estate market is a well known phenomenon discussed in the media every politician promises to fix it, they never do. The links between immigration and homelessness are also discussed openly. Politicians say they will build more houses. Personally I'm sick of our animals going extinct due to this.
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@looseycanon I know the limitations of media and the games they play. However we have had a migrant arrive every minute of every day this year. Under the current Labor government we have gone from 24 million people to about 27. The highest per capita numbers in the west. Much higher than Europe or the UK. We see it with our eyes, media just confirms what we see. And the Chinese in particular buy Sydney apartments but refuse to rent them out. That's not media spin it's happened for decades.
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@Nick-io9uk That's my opinion too.
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@MA-jz4yc I agree
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