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One could argue that it doesn’t make any sense to have children. It is more work, costs more money, and can cause more stress at times.
But people still do it. People still say it is worth it.
I for one never thought I would have children, but I cannot imagine my life without them.
OP asked for the benefits, no cost-benefit analysis. So here are a few items: - Family time is enjoyable, certainly helps cut down social media addiction and replace it with something meaningful (unless your perspective is that you'll die anyway so nothign is meaningful, but then you have other issues). - Having kids forces me to push myself to be better, control my emotions, be a role model that inspires my kids. Wi…
Well I can’t give you any reason why you should have children, but my life isn’t in any way worse for having a child, and while I certainly have regrets in life, my son isn’t one of them. Ymmv.
Your partner may want it, your parents may want it, no circumstances change the biological need to procreate.
Also, people do it during war, during draught, during ice age and on falling planes. You doomers aren't living in the end times. This isn't even close.
I’m not sure this is true. Most modern economies in the world have a declining birth rate.
My perspective on children has changed recently. We need more people and in the world to solve the problems that we’ve created. We don’t know if life exists outside of the earth and I want living things to thrive, and for that to be the case, I think we need more people.
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That's not true in the slightest. In fact, it's far, far easier to make money now with the internet. You can build a tool and have millions of people use it instantly and there are far more ways to make $ than ever (creator economy). Just look on twitter and you'll find loads of 20 year olds making 6 figures out of their college dorms with different kinds of internet products. I saw a thread yesterday from some 19 ye…
Is it? I expect those are only the top x%.
This isn't a good faith question. You start with a bunch of unsupportable supposition and then ask us to defend it. If the assumptions this question are based on aren't accurate, then all you're really doing here is throwing stuff at the wall and asking other people to unstick it. So that's my "answer": You created a baseless hypothetical. The hypothetical itself is the problem here, not the concept of kids. Nobody c…