> Why in the hell are these people "producing" children, if they aren't 100% certain that they'll be able to support them for the years until they are old enoug

> Why in the hell are these people "producing" children, if they aren't 100% certain that they'll be able to support them for the years until they are old enough to stand on their own feet? Because childbearing is not a rational choice -- it's a visceral response to the most basic of biological drives, drives that won't brook interference from something as peripheral as intelligence.