[lotsofpulp]

> If you want to have kids, have kids. You’ll figure it out. Sometimes you won’t.

The issue many people have with this line of reasoning is that not figuring it out affects an unwilling participant (the kids).

The most common sentiment I hear is that people want their kids to have at least the quality of life that they did when they were kids, and without a reasonable guarantee of achieving that, they will not choose to have kids.

For some, it might be that the kid does not have to work in the farm fields all day. For others, maybe the kid gets to learn how to read and write. And others, the kid does not have to work at all and gets to go all the way through high school. For others yet, the kid needs to have their own bedroom. And so on.