and it's not just the old war horses of the left preaching the steadily created, the young upstarts have joined the conversation, even when cooking alone in an empty apartment. >> the scientific consensus that is that having children can be very difficult and it leads young people to have a legitimate question, is it okay to still have children? >> laura: the lives of children will be very difficult. sure are, if they are born. it's called the eventual human, professor. people who claim to be concerned about being on the right side of history, they seem to be running in the opposite direction. nbc reported on millennials who just say note to babies. they did it last month. >> i think they had a lot of other aspirations in mind. babies are a lot of work and i wasn't really willing to take on