>My experience as a 21 year old is that many of my peers (both male and female) absolutely want to have kids. In fact, I've found it very common for people in m

>My experience as a 21 year old is that many of my peers (both male and female) absolutely want to have kids. In fact, I've found it very common for people in my generational cohort ("Zoomers") to openly want large families with 5 or more children. Sure, there's the occasional hardcore childfree hedonist, but they seem to be a minority amongst people 20ish years old. I'm not entirely certain what caused it, some combination of internet-fueled braggadocio or a general sentiment of revolt against the modern world, but it is real. I wouldn't be surprised if this is just the pendulum swinging in the other direction. In my generation, saying you don't want kids is practically the norm. But society also pushes whatever is in vogue so hard and so blindly that everyone eventually gets sick of it(just look at reddit). Eventually kids being told that having a family is lame are gonna rebel against the status quo and want the traditional upbringing that they keep being told they should stay away from. That's just my theory, but I think it's not hard to find it happening already.