[lucysmom]

Because we're selfish. We are remaining single in increasing numbers to later ages so that we can enjoy our many new toys, sensual pleasures and leisure time created by the longest period of prosperity in our history.

For some, deciding to have children is a selfish act. Others decide not to have children because they worry about not being able to provide health care, education, AND time for them. If you're working two jobs to survive, you can't be providing the supervision and nurturing children require to thrive.

Its all them toys and pleasures that make our economy strong. What an unpatriotic thing to suggest we should forgo them.

[bayourod]

"Its all them toys and pleasures that make our economy strong. What an unpatriotic thing to suggest we should forgo them. "

You'll have to speak louder, my new Bose speakers are great at overcoming the noise of my jet boat engines but make it difficult to carry on conversations.

[A. Pole]

For some, deciding to have children is a selfish act. Others decide not to have children because they worry about not being able to provide health care, education, AND time for them.

This is a receipe for the death of a nation. Most of people over the history were poor, still they had children.

Societies wich put affluence before children cannot reproduce themselves and have to be replaced by people from outside.