Are millennials really substituting dogs for children? Obviously not – as any dog owner would know | Zoe Williams
SSometimes, when sudden new results are published, you can only wonder why this specific question is asked, even with your interest in answers. Last week, Psychologist is published A review of recent developments in pet research, and wrote: “Given two directions for more dogs that are seen as family members and a decrease in the number of children, an important question arises: Do people choose dogs as a substitute for children?”
The authors concluded: well, sometimes. One study found that 16 % of dog owners actively thought of their dogs as children; Another commented on the frequency that the owners referred to themselves in the name of “Parents of Pets”, and their best friends as “fur children”. but, They also warned thisUnlike the common belief, only a small minority of dog owners treats their pets such as human children. In most cases, parents chose dog dogs specifically because they are not like children. “
The authors are in Hungary, where the low -birth was a hot issue on the button throughout the ages. This led to policies that achieved the story of Peak Handmaid this year, when the Prime Minister, VikTor Orbán, announced this Mothers of two or more children It will be exempted from paying the income tax lifelong. So this intervention was somewhat chanting – in the first place, because it is completely realistic, not descriptive, and in the second, to talk about dogs. In general, very noticeably when it comes from Orbán, a low -paced conversation is just a global building from the right, which is an illogical mixture that you are severely fighting for immigration while you are at the same time that you are one generation of no sufficient number of people.
Bring dogs in it, and everything seems quieter, or, or at least, if you love dogs. And those who do this will never get what lovers other than dogs object to, which is good, because if they do that-or I should say, if we do that-this hill will definitely die on it.
If you have a dog and a child, or just a dog, or not, but you have a dog in the past and for children as well, you will know that, away from being selected love creatures, they are actually the opposite of each other. While people talked about the history of domestication of dogs through the wolf, it appeared since then that dogs and wolves are not similar, and as much as the dogs we are wearing, They also coordinated us. They have taught us how to communicate with another type, and surrender to what cannot be known, driven by anything more or less complicated than love. Dogs can also sit, and often give you their claw. On the contrary, children cannot be completely eliminated, and by time they trained themselves in very surprising ways (this cannot be said about a dog), they will be on their way. It is, again, not something that dogs do.
Speaking of myself, if I want to open this puzzle, I will search elsewhere. Does births decrease due to low living levels? Or to put it simply: Can anyone hold a child? If we want to create favorable societies for large families, will we need to discover ambition in public services and generosity in state support? Is there an attached global pessimism, rooted in real disasters that can be observed, such as in failing the climate crisis and the deficit in the face of conflict? Could the world be increasingly similar to an unlimited place for the precious and fragile person?
And if you are fully determined to bring dogs in it-for example, if you specialize in human relationships of dogs-you still tend towards the social determinants of pets ownership on paternity and motherhood. This can focus on the availability of family care, economic and time restrictions, which the paper reminds for a short period, rather than individual behaviors, such as your dog’s mistake for the child.
The real cause of dog ownership cannot be considered as a “care engine similar to parenting and motherhood, but with less demands” (as the authors said), it is not actually easier than having children. If there is any parallel, it will be with the oldest years of raising children, when they do not have their own separate world, and look at you like their sun and moon, and they will literally put anything in their mouth just to see what is happening.
As at this stage, it is easily difficult. Looking at this world after birth, where dog ownership passes, at least in the United Kingdom, via the ceiling- 3.2 million pets were purchased during insurance Only – you realize how people enjoy their time and affection.
