Even amounts of men and women express not wanting children in surveys. Reasons behind this are presumed to be for lifestyle or economic. In the stats though -

Even amounts of men and women express not wanting children in surveys. Reasons behind this are presumed to be for lifestyle or economic. In the stats though - about 25% of men today don’t have children. Less than 15% of women don’t have children. There are 50%+ more men without children than women. If you talked to these men though, you’d know it’s not because they didn’t want kids but because they never were able to have them. No woman wanted to have kids with them. This is true for our history as well. Men had children about 40% of the time back in the old days. Women still hit the same amount as they did before - ~80%. We hit a recent phenomenon where men were catching up with women. I think we’ll continue to see a decline in men having children as the stats show this trend continuing to go down. This isn’t because men don’t want children - it’s mostly because the women don’t want children with the men available to them. We can see this same pattern with sex for young men and women. The rate of sexlessness for young men is growing exceptionally fast compared to young women. It’s not because men don’t want sex - it’s because women don’t want sex with the men available to them.