Your thoughts on parenthood?

I like the raw logic in your beliefs, they're pretty similar to mine. I believe this planet is way too overpopulated and I personally believe more countries should do what China does and restrict each family to 1 child (yes they do have a few exceptions). Do you ever dive deeper into the subject of the psychology of why a lot of people have kids though? Some of my beliefs are: cultural influence, it's what they were taught is right (we're one of the more likely types to question and not do what we're taught, non-conformists ftw), they easily blend with society by doing so which may also put (made up?) pressure on other people who don't have kids to do the same (conform), having kid(s) as an excuse to not doing anything with your life besides raising them and being a stay-at-home parent, with the divorce rates being as high as they are they have a lot of negative impacts on the children (some people never even get married too), and in some twisted scenarios getting pregnant to try and manipulate the other person to be with you or pay child support. Those are some of my negative opinions, I of course have some positive ones as well.

You don't have to have kids and you definitely shouldn't ever have to defend yourself with why you don't. When the time is right (and that may never come, who knows?) you may find the right person that you'll want to have children with for all of the right reasons (or maybe not, who knows right?) I just feel that too many people rush into it without enough thought which is why we have many divorced and single parents (not that you have to get married of course). You may have already thought of all of this before, just thought I'd share some of my own personal thoughts. Sorry for the long response?, hopefully it will have a positive impact on you. Your opinion of it would be appreciated, thanks.

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