Well said. And what's with the influx of these articles on FR lately? Has some whackjob interest group gotten its marching orders from someone?Earlier this week, some maniac was actually suggesting that American adults without children shouldn't be allowed to vote!
So it would seem. It's basically an extension of the extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement, which also tends to harbor a belief that God ordained that women should aspire to a lifetime of being barefoot, pregnant, and busy 24/7 with attending to the basic needs of a mob of children. They are against ANYTHING that involves any kind of contraception or any other mode of limiting births.
They seem oblivious to the fact that low birthrates are a hallmark of civilization, while high birthrates are a hallmark of 3rd world hellholes. They are not worried about overpopulation in the slightest (I've seen assertions here that the entire present population of the planet could live comfortably in the state of Texas, apparently assuming that everyone would live on manna air-dropped from heaven, since all the farm/ranchland would have been converted into residential property), and are utterly blind to the correlation between high birthrates and persistent economic and educational stagnation, and the susceptibility to socialist and/or totalitarian forms of government which always accompanies persistent economic and educational stagnation.
They are convinced that all the problems of the world would be solved if everyone would just marry young, never sleep with anyone but their spouse, and produce an endless stream of babies to be raised by stay-at-home mothers. They do not take note of the fact that this is the dominant pattern in Arab and Latin American societies, and is getting lousy results.