[Owl558]

Why - Demographics. I have 2 kids as well.

As you rightly point out, Europe is in a demographic death-spiral because they aren’t having kids. You need to have at least 3 kids for your population to grow. I was just curious how many you had. For you and I with 2 kids each, the population is holding steady, but not growing.

[Savage Beast]

It was a mistake for me to have only two. If I had it to do over I would have at least three or four. I am a self-made man. I was very poor when I was growing up. My father died when I was 14 years old. I was and still am phobic about poverty. I made lots of money, but I was always afraid that I couldn't take care of as many children as I would like to have had. In retrospect I could have done so easily.

In the generations before our grandparents, it was commonplace for people to have 5 or 10 or more children.

[Savage Beast]

As someone observed here on FR a while back, the people of the West have aborted, birth controlled, and homosexualized themselves into oblivion.

I suspect that the decadent Western Leftists' Islamophilia may be a subconscious desire for the absolutes that Islam promises.