It's not child hate, unless you count the sarcastic younger generations' dark jokes. For me and my wife, it was a rational decision. We never enjoyed kids much,

It's not child hate, unless you count the sarcastic younger generations' dark jokes. For me and my wife, it was a rational decision. We never enjoyed kids much, we have careers that we wanted to fully pursue, and other people are having enough kids to make up for our lack of 1-2 more. We're also convinced that the world is overpopulated. What's the advantage of being 9 billion or more against being, say, 5 billion? The happiest countries in the world have lower population density, so the resources aren't as strained, and the natural beauty is still afordable to all. Dwindling gradually shouldn't be as disruptive as we're made to believe. That, and also the glomy future our kids would have had. The biggest culprits of climate change and pollution aren't giving signs of stopping anytime soon (even more with the recent demagogic resurgence), and while we'll be dead in a few more decades, the younger generations will live in harder times than we did. Not having kids is also an abstentionist stament, because people who want more kids overlap significantly with people who don't care about the world they'll be leaving to those kids.