r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jan 06 '25

Health After the US overturned Roe v Wade, permanent contraception surged among young adults living in states likely to ban abortion, new research found. Compared to May 2022, August 2022 saw 95% more vasectomies and 70% more tubal sterilizations performed on people between the ages of 19 and 26.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/permanent-contraception-abortion-roe-v-wade
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u/huehuehuehuehuuuu Jan 07 '25

1st decade? A good number of my older coworkers are helping their adult children with housing. Some are in the last years of school, some are working, some have their own children. All cannot afford comfortable and safe dwelling without their parents’ help one way or another.

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u/Redditer51 Jan 07 '25

I'm in a position where I'm basically a tenant. I wanna have something to call my own (and to live closervto my family again) but with how expensive rent is now, even the chances of me owning an apartment looks bleak.

I get angrier and angrier at these billionaires in politics and in various other industries. Because they essentially gained their wealth by stealing our future. 

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u/Dwarfdeaths Jan 07 '25

You should definitely read about Henry George and the Land Value Tax. It might sound too good to be true but this "housing" problem is entirely solvable with the right policy. And housing isn't the only thing that involves land rent. People are getting mad at capitalism when the real problem is that land isn't capital.

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u/Roflkopt3r Jan 07 '25

Yes. The rising complexity of the world has shifted parental attitude from "kick your kids out at 16 and they'll manage somehow" towards supporting kids well into their 20s.

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u/Tearakan Jan 07 '25

That's a good point too

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u/Nauin Jan 07 '25

One of my friends is already planning renovations to her house to make it bigger and more accommodating for her kids as they turn into adults. They're toddlers but she's already predicting they'll need to stay with her well into adulthood. She ran the numbers and realized it was cheaper by hundreds of thousands to add onto her current house than it is to buy a new one at the current interest rates.

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u/spinbutton Jan 07 '25

Maybe this is more common now, but it often happened in the past. My grandmother gave my dad money to build our first house, that was in 1960