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Have you considered that in a world without children, many people would likely suffer from serious depression and other mental disorders? There is a profound re
by semi-extrinsic 11y ago
Have you considered that in a world without children, many people would likely suffer from serious depression and other mental disorders? There is a profound reason most humans choose to have children even though they're a lot of work and often a pain in the neck.
- nly 11y ago> There is a profound reason most humans choose to have children even though they're a lot of work and often a pain in the neck. Pretty much everyone I've ever asked who have had kids wasn't consciously trying for their first child. I've personally always felt that a lot of parents later rationalise a decision they didn't really make.
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoAccording to the paper "Intended and Unintended Births in the United States: 1982–2010" where they interviewed 12 000 women, for women aged 15-24 either married or living together with their partner, a little more than half of all pregnancies were intended. I think it's safe to assume that most of those were first pregnancies.