[rainworld]

But most do in fact want children and do not really know the risk. Modern Western societies are structured to encourage people to use their most fertile years to further their careers and to keep “searching” and “experiencing”.

We’re running a global, uncontrolled open air study on whether affluent societies with birth control, divorce, feminism etc. can exist long term. Given resulting reproduction rates, it’s not looking good.

[kaba0]

I agree that declining birth rates and later child bearing is a problem, but I heavily disagree with the alternative you seem to promote: depending on what you mean by birth control, we definitely don’t want everyone having 10 children, which was not uncommon without it; divorce is an essential freedom we absolutely should have; and feminism is a very important movement and attacking it is just vile.

[johnnyanmac]

>But most do in fact want children and do not really know the risk.

Given so many here complaining abuot meeting a person to begin with: Beggars can't be choosers. Figure out who you'd want to have a family with first and then get around to the whole child part.

There's also adoption, but it'd admittedly be hard to be approved as a single parent.