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Imagine a perfect world where having children is not associated with adding any problems (which could require more time, money and patience) to care about in yo

Imagine a perfect world where having children is not associated with adding any problems (which could require more time, money and patience) to care about in your life - everything is covered: you get a great new 10-room apartment in the best city center for free, free pass to the best school for your Children, great free babysitters, an awesome free doctor comes whenever the kid falls ill, 4-hour workday to spend time with your kids, a couple extra weeks of paid leave to travel alone together with you spouse and rest from parenting etc. How probable it is you still don't want to have children?

satvikpendem 3y ago
Very probable. Again, ask rich nations why they don't have kids while poor nations do at an exponential scale. At the end of the day, and people don't want to accept this, people simply don't want to have kids.
- qwerty456127 3y ago
  Okay, thank you for providing the perspective. I could never imagine it can be this way. Personally I don't have children because of one simple reason - I don't have nearly enough free time and money to have them raised reasonably well while maintaining my comfortable life level and my wife says exactly the same.
  - satvikpendem 3y ago
    Sure, some people simply like not having them, and that demographic seems to be growing, as people start to get out of the social pressure of having kids (as was common in the past and still is in many areas of the world, where women are expected to pump out babies, and men are expected to help them do so) and think critically about what they want from their finite life. Many still want kids, yes, but many also don't want to spend 18+ years raising them.
ajmurmann 3y ago
A lot of people enjoy their career. They went to school for ~20 years to prepare for it. Having interruptions in your career of many months and suddenly having to limiting your investment in your career in addition can put your career on the backfoot especially in a competitive environment. This is why in most developed countries poor people have a lot of kids. They have no career to disrupt. They have jobs. Very wealthy people get staff that takes care of household and watched kids. Educated, middle and upper middle class has a career to lose and cannot afford comprehensive, around-the-clock staff.

satvikpendem 3y ago

Very probable. Again, ask rich nations why they don't have kids while poor nations do at an exponential scale. At the end of the day, and people don't want to accept this, people simply don't want to have kids.

qwerty456127 3y ago
Okay, thank you for providing the perspective. I could never imagine it can be this way. Personally I don't have children because of one simple reason - I don't have nearly enough free time and money to have them raised reasonably well while maintaining my comfortable life level and my wife says exactly the same.
- satvikpendem 3y ago
  Sure, some people simply like not having them, and that demographic seems to be growing, as people start to get out of the social pressure of having kids (as was common in the past and still is in many areas of the world, where women are expected to pump out babies, and men are expected to help them do so) and think critically about what they want from their finite life. Many still want kids, yes, but many also don't want to spend 18+ years raising them.

ajmurmann 3y ago

A lot of people enjoy their career. They went to school for ~20 years to prepare for it. Having interruptions in your career of many months and suddenly having to limiting your investment in your career in addition can put your career on the backfoot especially in a competitive environment. This is why in most developed countries poor people have a lot of kids. They have no career to disrupt. They have jobs. Very wealthy people get staff that takes care of household and watched kids. Educated, middle and upper middle class has a career to lose and cannot afford comprehensive, around-the-clock staff.