Also: Citing the unwillingness of one's spouse to have children is a circular statement. Imagine, if you will, if the figure had been not 19%, but 99%. What would it mean if 99% of all polled persons had said, "Yeah, I want to have children, but my spouse doesn't!" 19% is not as extreme, but still entails the same logical dilemma.
Personally, I think that these statistics suffer from the "self-reporting" bias. It's like asking people why they don't want to wake up and get out of bed, and the people responding, "Just five more minutes!" Again and again and again.
Regards,
The other issue with the article is... it doesn’t pass the smell test, since the top reasons don’t seem to stop those who have the most children everywhere in the world from having them
money
housing
health care
and yet everywhere in the world the people with the least of those consistently have the most kids.