Let’s make babies!
Being a student is not actually an easy phase of life. You lack money, time and energy, but you still have to get things done and even try to enjoy your life a bit every now and then.
Minister of Social Affairs and Health in Finland, Liisa Hyssälä, is now putting even more pressure on Finnish students. She wants them to start reproducing themselves as the primigravidas here are nowadays too old and the age structure in Finland is thus distorted.
Excuse-moi, but WHAT!?! I do not know in which century Hyssälä thinks she’s living, but demanding something like this is absolutely reasonable. The culture in these issues is changing slowly but steadily, for fewer and fewer people nowadays starting a family is topical at their twenties. People might be career-oriented or have other ambitions to reach before they want to settle down. There might not be any room for a spouse and kids in their life, and some people are never ready to take that responsibility, they want to keep their independence and concentrate on other aspects of life. I believe that in the 21st century you are allowed to do that. Or you should be, at least.
If I ever have kids, I want it to be when I reached my ambitions when it comes to career and even in exploring the world and this life in general. I want to be in such situation in my life where nothing keeps me from being a good parent and concentrating on my kids and their well being. And I need to be ready, for christs sake, a grown up myself. If I’d have to guess, I’d say it might take at least for a decade before I’ve reached that point.
Does the minister really want parents who are not ready to be parents yet? Yea well, why don’t they start demanding a baby in every two years from every student in addition to their study attainments in exchange to the lousy study grants we are getting? Who cares if this people even want to be parents. Or better yet, we could forget the whole sexual equality and educating women at all, they could just get pregnant as often as possible…and when the parents get old and are not able to take care of themselves anymore, the kids could do that for them and we’d save some government money. Hmm, this does sound a bit familiar, aren’t they doing this somewhere already? Oh, right, it’s the underdeveloped countries that have this kind of family policy.
All my friends back there at the Uni, would you guys seriously wanna start a family already? Do you feel mature enough? And am I the only one who feels that Minister Hyssälä does not quite see our point of view to this topic?
I don’t say that it is impossible to combine family and studies or career but surely, the ones who are able and willing to do that, are doing it already, they don’t need Hyssäläs orders for that.
At this point of my life, I love kids only as long as they are not mine.
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