Well I agree, but there have been times when having children at least in this country was easier. Of course it goes without saying that if I had children they would be home schooled.
Oh, yes! The fifties in many small towns in America were great! Even large ones were so much fun and so free! Parents allowed their children to run all over the town from dawn until dusk and all people looked after them.
Satanic people were extremely rare and marginalized or jailed or locked up. The Innocence of childhood was very protected!
But, out of billions of people, Americans have been very Blessed and unique-—and it is all because of the ideology of geniuses growing up with Christian Ethics who created that Shining City on a Hill! They had Courage and Wisdom.