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> We want kids, but we are also deeply afraid that having them will compromise our ability to compete.

Is that really what it is? I always figured it was something more like people waking up to the fact that retirement has ceased to exist, and deciding that they may as well have fun in their 20s/30s (when they are in peak condition to have such fun) and responsibilities in their later years, rather than the other way around.