A mum has sparked a debate online, after branding her own daughter as "selfish" for her decision not to have children and carry on their family name.
The mum, who claims to be a Gen Xer, has blasted her daughter's desire not to have kids, and even went as far as having two more children herself in a desperate attempt to maintain the bloodline.
"I’m Gen X, and I have a huge problem with how I am left carrying the weight for Millennials," the 42-year-old wrote in a Facebook post, which was later shared to Reddit.
"My daughter is 22 and decided a while ago she does not want any kids. She's actually getting a procedure for sterilisation next year."
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She continued: "But those souls needing to come into our family for ancestral or karmic reasons still need to be born. So I'm stuck birthing and raising two babies who should have been born to her but can’t be because she’s too selfish to have kids."
"As a Millennial, it's exhausting that we're STILL getting blamed for everything," one person wrote, while another added: "Millennials are killing the ‘Have a baby and use their existence to distract you from your problems’ industry."
Meanwhile, others were quick to point out that if her daughter is still 22, then she would actually be classed as Gen X rather than a millennial, but that doesn't take away from the fact that an increasing number of young people are choosing not to have children.
There are a number of factors, such as the increased cost of living and environmental reasons affecting their decisions.
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