Completely baseless claim. The situation is really very simple. Many people in developing nations NEED to have children due to the lack of a pension system. Se

Completely baseless claim. The situation is really very simple. Many people in developing nations NEED to have children due to the lack of a pension system. Secondary factors are a lack of education, contraception, and traditional societal expectations. All of these reasons can be summed up as the choice of having children, as well as how many, not being fully free. In a situation where people are free to decide on wanting children (and how many), and not really REQUIRE them, they will go for 0-2. When given the choice, people simply do not want more. It's as simple as that. This is a universal finding throughout the world. 0-2, which typically averages to 1.6 - 1.8 in many countries, is below replacement rate. Mystery solved. We simply don't want more. What if we would need to work less, would we have more children? No. What if we had higher incomes, better child support, would we have more children? No. Counter intuitively, the "luxury" of having a say in having children means we have less of them.