Nothing is more primal than procreation. Nothing. It predates religion, cities, agriculture, and humanity itself. You cite a cultural thing, religion, but bi

Nothing is more primal than procreation. Nothing. It predates religion, cities, agriculture, and humanity itself. You cite a cultural thing, religion, but birthrates are down exclusive of culture, it is why I mentioned cultures quite foreign to the West. You mention costs, which is why I mentioned historical birth control, for example, plenty of children were born during the great depression! Let me put this another way. We know that tiny changes in the chemical balance of the brain, can turn a calm, cultured person into a raving lunatic. Just see what happens with an excess of calcium in the blood, for example! We have a myriad of treatments for depression, for psychosis, for other issues often derived from more than pure genetics. We know that levels of testosterone in males have declined. Yet when I mention that the problem could be biological, most scoff. I find this, in my opinion, delusional stance to be quite concerning. People love to believe that their actions, in their entirety, are the outcome of their rational thought. But this is procreation, the most powerful, primal drive a species has.