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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: It seems more and more people are making the decision

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Speaker 2: not to have kids these days. According to a recent

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Speaker 2: study by Michigan State University, the percentage of adults who

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Speaker 2: don't want kids today has nearly doubled. It was fourteen

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Speaker 2: percent back in two thousand and two. Now it's twenty

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Speaker 2: nine percent. That's the latest from twenty twenty three statistics.

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Speaker 1: Which was in the nineties.

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Speaker 2: The trend is still growing. The research didn't pinpoint the

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Speaker 2: exact reasons why Americans are opting out of parenthood, but

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Speaker 2: they're they're saying things like, you know, the state of

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Speaker 2: the world right now, economic worries, the allure of having

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Speaker 2: more freedom. You know, they don't have to worry about

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Speaker 2: their children. You're a parent. See, yes, I say it,

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Speaker 2: all those things.

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Speaker 1: I say it all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the reason.

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Speaker 1: But we didn't have planned parent who?

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Speaker 2: Yes, we did, we did, we did. What do you

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Speaker 2: guys love about being parents and grandparents? In your case

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Speaker 2: Junior and Steve and.

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Speaker 1: Well, this ain't a good that ain't a good. Say way, well,

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Speaker 1: it ain't the story about we don't want the kids?

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Speaker 1: Now you want?

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Speaker 2: You got to convince them, Yeah, convince the people that

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Speaker 2: don't want them that they want.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think we should start with Junior because Junior

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Speaker 1: is the newest grandfather. Oh, well, the pictures. I love

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Speaker 1: seeing the pictures.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Tommy is Yeah, Yeah, that would be Papa t

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get that straight right, all right, Papa Tea.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys. Coming up at thirty three minutes after

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Speaker 2: the hour, we'll play another round, would you rather? Right

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Speaker 2: after this? You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.