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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 3: Which was in the nineties. The trend is still growing.

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Speaker 2: The research didn't pinpoint the exact reasons why Americans are

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Speaker 2: opting out of parenthood, but they're they're saying things like,

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Speaker 2: you know, the state of the world right now, economic worries,

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Speaker 2: the allure of having more freedom. You know, they don't

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Speaker 2: have to worry about their children, your parent see, yes,

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Speaker 2: I say it, all.

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Speaker 3: Those things, I say it all. Yeah, the reason. Yes,

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Speaker 3: but we didn't have planned parenthood, Yes we did, we did.

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Speaker 2: We did. What do you guys love about being parents

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Speaker 2: and grandparents? In your case, Junior and Steve and.

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Speaker 4: Well, this ain't a good. That ain't a good saying well,

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Speaker 4: it ain't the story about we don't want the kids.

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Speaker 3: Now you want?

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Speaker 5: You got to convince them, Yeah, convince the people that

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Speaker 5: don't want them that they want.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think we should start with Junior because Junior

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Speaker 4: is the newest grandfather.

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Speaker 3: Oh, well, the pictures. I love seeing the pictures.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Tommy is Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be Papa t You're gonna get that

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Speaker 1: straight right, all right, Papa Tea.

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