A professor said:

The biggest problem right now is not that young people don't want to get married or have children.
Let me be direct — stop overanalyzing why the post-00s aren't dating or the post-90s aren't having kids.
The real game-changer, the most critical issue, is this: the current generation of parents has stopped pushing their children to get married and have kids.
In the past, parents did everything they could — pushing their kids hard in school, obsessing over education, nagging them to marry and have children, spending their whole lives revolving around family and offspring.
But not anymore.
This generation of parents, who have endured hardship and carried all the weight of life, has finally woken up.
They've walked the full cycle of life themselves: career dead ends, midlife crises, crushing mortgage debt, the bottomless pit of raising children, and endless educational competition.
They see it clearly — marriage isn't easy, raising kids isn't happiness, and most of life is a heavy burden.
So now they collectively tell their children just one thing:
No need to get married, no need to have kids. Just live your own life comfortably — that's the greatest success.
This isn't compromise or surrender — it's a rational stop-loss after seeing reality clearly.
Wealthy families can still push and support their kids.
Ordinary people see it most clearly: even if you give it your all, you may not get a stable life.
So why make the next generation jump into the same cycle?
Young people not wanting marriage or children is their own choice.
Parents actively talking their children out of marriage and childbearing — that's the true turning point of the era.
When the generation that most supported starting families and having children collectively lies flat and loosens the reins,
then from now on, all population policies and all expectations about marriage and relationships are basically empty talk.
One generation has dismantled the shackles of involution, and in doing so, they've also dismantled the logic of continuing the traditional way of life.
It's very real, and very cruel:
In the end, everyone just wants to live well for themselves, and no one is willing to sacrifice their entire life anymore.