Baby fever just isn't spreading like it used to. The United States fertility rate hit an all-time low last year, and some of our biggest musicians, like Charli XCX and Tyler the Creator, are working their parenting anxieties out in their club bangers. This week, host Brittany Luse invites Anastasia Berg, co-author of What are Children For?, to explore the unique way millennials are confronting the age old question of whether or not to have a child.Then, in the wake of media layoffs, there's still a hunger for food coverage. Enter TikTok star and former MMA fighter Keith Lee, whose reviews of local eats have gained him over 16 million followers. Critics of Lee say he's diluting the art of culinary criticism, but fans can't get enough of his casual style. Brittany turns to Detroit Free Press restaurant and dining critic Lyndsay C. Green, and New York Times food writer Korsha Wilson to grapple with the #KeithLee Effect.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. All right, Anastasia, if you're ready to go, then I'll start asking questions.
Awesome.
This is Anastasia Berg. She's a professor of philosophy at the University of California and co-author of the book, What Are Children For?
Thank you so much for having me.
My pleasure. My pleasure. So we are here to talk about the question all of us have to face at one point or another. Should I baby or should I brat? Which one are you, baby or brat?
A bratty baby, I would say. Okay, okay.
I know half of you listening know exactly what me and Anastasia are talking about. And the rest of you think we're insane. The point is that many of you have asked yourself this question at some point in your life because baby or brat is the 2024 millennial and Gen Z way of asking, should I have a baby or not?
Shout out to Shannon Keating at The Cut for being the first to frame the question this way. Baby is, of course, I'm going to have a baby. And Brat is, no, I'm not going to have a baby. I'm choosing to live a child-free life and all that comes with it. Brat is also the name of one of the biggest pop albums of this year by Charli XCX. She even asks this question on the album herself.
Should she have a baby or be the world's biggest pop star?
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