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> You should be asking the opposite question. Why does anyone choose to have children? I would think that the opposite question does not need much explanation because we have some DNA programming to spread our genes and to "make offsprings". Assuming a healthy person and all the social/cultural/economical/philosophical influences aside if one decided not to have children, they must fight their own hormones in the fir…
Everything you've said is right, but giving in to biological imperative isn't really the same as choosing, is it?
Re: Ask HN: Why did you choose not to have children?
#41It's not just a biological imperative. There are strong cultural influences as well.