It's surprising how many people have this attitude that "oh, you'll change your mind" when I tell them I don't want children. When I tell them I'm dating a woman who doesn't want kids they get even worse and insist she's lying.
This isn't meant to be an anti-kids post BTW. Obviously the majority of people DO want children, if they didn't we'd be going extinct. It's not a universal desire though, despite what some people claim.
My dad was the same way. (And may well still be.)
I'm 30 now, and still have absolutely no desire to have kids, at least until stasis pods are invented. Don't feel like taking care of them? Back in stasis. Pause, and resume later.
But that would probably be cruel and irresponsible. All the more reason not to have them.
And I know full well that raising kids well requires significant resources, both in terms of money, time, and emotional investment. I don't want to put forth those things, so the reasonable solution is to not have kids. Not a tough decision to make.
Yeah, I like making new things at work and seeing them go off into the world to perform their intended function. They're not sentient though, so they don't talk back at me, and they don't ever decide to do things on their own.
Stuff in the OP's article about child abandonment: Yup, we're just another animal species on this planet. Animals will sometimes abandon their offspring, and we do a very consistent job of showing our long biological history.
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