Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report

And to immediately reply to my own post:

I really really don't want to raise kids, and this century is pretty much the first one where that's actually an option.

I have a great husband, a suitable house, a good job (and so does he). But since we don't want to spend two decades raising children, we chose not to have them. Because that's an option. We don't need children as a labor force for subsistence farming, we don't get kids as a result of recreational sex and we don't need children to provide for us in old age. That's entirely new, none of those things were true a hundred years ago, and many still aren't true in other parts of the world.

So yeah, even people who are super privileged like us, might still not have kids, because we think having kids sucks.

So another study that found out what the majority already considered obvious, except for some old fashioned extreme religious minorities

Even if your brain tricks you into caring with a chemical cocktail to rival any drug being fear mongered about, if you aren't already high the entire prospect of parenthood seems awful. From destroying your body to forcing you to entirely reorientate your life around a burden that can't even sleep without dying. Especially in an era kids can't even walk down the street alone without some Karen calling the cops, you can't even catch a break after they are old enough to exist independently.