Maybe so, but he generalized his experience as though it is the norm. It is not, it's the exception.

One in 5 children are raised by a single mom in my country. One in twenty by a single dad. When my daughter started school 3/4ths of her kindergarten class we're in broken homes. That's the norm.

Whatever he felt like his intent was, he was shaming the deliberately childless as selfish and ungrateful while being flippant and casual about very real reasons why women would not want to have children.

Not wanting to bring children into insecure situations where you can't be sure you'll be able to support them is not selfish. It is responsible. Whether or not they feel like they can talk about that openly and fairly is another question. Again, the pressure women get to procreate is real.

As far as population dynamics go, worldwide, it needs to be drawn down. We either do so deliberately or we shoot past carrying capacity and it tanks. Only the first way leads to any semblance of civilization.

There are 8 billion people on this planet. I'm guessing your position is based on some articles you've read about Japan's looming crisis and falling birth rates elsewhere.

Here's the thing. Japan could absorb immigrants into it's country to stabilize it's population. So could other countries, including the US.

There's not a shortage of young people worldwide. There are plenty of children who need homes.

Maybe before we demand more children be produced "for civilization" we should make sure the surplus we already have are homed and cared for. Is that honestly too much of an ask? There are war orphans across the world. There are 1/2 million children in foster care in the US. If the population is in such trouble, why is there such a large surplus of children nobody wants?

Maybe before we automatically fall into shaming women for society's woes, we could forgo that low hanging fruit for fucking once and take a good hard look around. We could ask ourselves 'why are they opting out?' We could look for other, rather obvious, solutions to our problems that don't involve forcing or coercing women into something they don't want to do but will alter the trajectory of their lives forever.

It's regrettable that you find my and other women's distaste, revulsion, and resistance to being forced and coerced into subjugation for an economic engine that needs to slow down anyways "silly" but it's hardly surprising. I'll stick by my carefully thought out and considered opinions regardless of your feelpinions about it. Thanks.