| > both parents will need to work to fund raising a child, so the mother necessarily has to do 1.5 or 2 full-time jobs Not necessarily true; previous income, lifestyle preferences, and assets all matter here. > grandparents most likely don't live in the same city so you're reliant on strangers to raise your children Not all people are “grandparents” or “strangers”. And the people involved in carrying for your children can very quickly stop being strangers even if they start out that way. > increased risk of autism / ADD / lack of focus because of the internet The internet doesn't cause Autism or AD(H)D. > the world is already over-populated, and however hard it is for you to compete with your peers, it'll be even harder for your children The world isn't overpopulated. Competition in capitalist economies may generally be exacerbated by various factors that concentrate rewards more over time, but there are enough other social forces at play that it's pretty hard to make any concrete prediction about prospects for any particular person's offspring a few decades down the road. > I'm looking for new perspectives on why one should choose to procreate nowadays. Why? This is so heavily dependent on your personal preferences and priorities that there isn't a whole lot of useful information directly on the question that anyone else can give you. To the extent that there are beliefs on matters of fact underlying your existing position or questions of fact that would help resolve that position, that's probably a more valuable place to seek outside information than arguments directly for having children which necessarily presume a particular value framework which may or may not be yours. |