The way we live and die today, you don't really need any kids.
The State takes care of us in our old age. That itself is quite unfortunate.
I’m very thankful that I have many friends having big families- 6-7-8 kids and more. And they don’t live on farms.
These conservative kids outnumber the liberal kids- so our country will benefit!
I think you just hit the nail with a sledgehammer.
Kids are now a choice rather then an economical necessity.
The agrarian contract is no longer in force in the developed world.
A society that is so self-absorbed that it will not reproduce is a society headed for extinction. Societies without children care nothing for the next generation’s future, as long as their own retirements are secure. But they should.
Why must America import tens of millions of Latin American laborers? To do the work that we’ve had too few babies to grow up and do! Since Roe-v-Wade in 1973, we have aborted well over 20 million Americans who would now be between the ages of 19 and 35 — prime working years. You can’t tell me that we “don’t need children” anymore.
Europe’ long-term birth rates are alarmingly low, and its situation is even more bleak. While America imports poor Hispanics from marginally Christian societies, Europe has resorted to mass importation of Muslim workers whose faith is hostile to Western Civilization. As Europeans age and die off without new babies, its native populations will soon begin to shrink rapidly. For example, Spain’s birth rate is so low (1.1 births per woman) that its native population will halve in the next twenty years.
We desperately need more children, not less.
Just in the physical sense, anyone who becomes old, ill, or disabled in any sense "needs" either their own kids, or the social services which depend on everybody else's kids: which is to say, a young, entry-level and mid-level workforce which lifts and carried everybody, which is --- to say the least --- paying more into the system than they're taking out.
To put it in broader, starked terms: "kids" are what "society" is made of. If there are few kids, you have a weak and unsustainable society, even if we're only speaking of its wobbly, inverted-pyramid tax structure, its feeble investment patterns, its lack of risk and verve and innovation and so forth.
In a broader and deeper sense, every parent, every mother and father, can in some sense rescued from the undertow of meaninglessness and futility by the bright promise of their children. We live for the continuity, the conviviality, the satisfaction of seeing a little platoon of fresh youth carrying some portion of "ourselves" into future generations.
The pleasure of nurturing other beings who are like you, and like nobody else in the word, who are kindred spirits and yet stunning originals: is all this foreign to you? Has the personal relationship and richness, the natural affection of families come to an end?
A solo life is a waning and paltry thing if you're not in any way connected with the electric current of the generations.
There are childless people who have rich relationships with young people: some teachers come to mind. Bless them: they are blessed. But without a spiritual relationship with the future, the present runs into nothing but a blank wall.
So it seems to me.