Rich world problems, though. In poorer countries and our poorer past, you'd have been working alongside her as she wouldn't be able to do it all on her own. Poor people have little choice but to bring children into this world. They would not survive without them. Opting to not have children is a luxury.

> perhaps people are more educated now

Or less educated. We seem to have come to believe that children are porcelain dolls that will break if they have to lift the lightest of fingers before they turn 18, even though there is no basis to that. It's just a cultural display.

Very much so.

Sadly, hand-in-hand with some strange Peter Pan syndrome of many adults remaining eternal children or what's worse, outright demonizing having children, arguably one of the most beautiful things you could ever achieve in life.

I'm deeply grateful to have been given the chance to be alive and for all those experiences as a child.

> And instead of living life for the purpose of being some child making vessels

someone needs therapy...

Also, the logical consequence of your position is all poor people should be banned from procreating, trickling off to enormous chunks of third world countries.

Bizarre position.