> It is sad to me that so many young people are voluntarily choosing not to have children.

I think many people feel they are incapable of taking care of offspring. Better not to bring into this world children you cannot care properly for.

The people who think they are incapable of caring for children, and then choose not to, are by and large people who are thoughtful and deliberative, who are the exact people who would be good at raising children.

That's your opinion. The reason I exist is because my parents made me. That doesn't mean I have to create a life to give my own life meaning.

The reason people choose to have less and less kids is because raising a child is a thankless/tough job and despite all the progress that has been made on the social aspect of raising kids, more often than not, it is still the woman's job to do the rearing and raising of the kids.

Family is not everything, I know countless people who were born in terrible families.

Leaving a legacy is so overrated, why do you feel like you need to do so? What is so important and so unique about you that if your family line were to end today, the world would be missing?

Please don't confuse your opinion with facts.

On your deathbed, you’ll look back and consider what the point of everything was. We all make our own purpose and reason for living. But I dream of my kids, they give me so much happiness, and the best thing I ever did was have them and the joy they bring. It’s sad that people cannot see the beauty in this.

If you think having kids is the best thing that ever happened to you, that's fine, but it is your opinion. Nothing else.

What is sad to me is people like you who think they got it all figured it out because you decided to procreate. Condescending much?

Low resolution take. Not bad, nothing new, genuinely I think you're missing so many facets of the human experience.

People commit the worst atrocities and embody a dog eat dog mentality, all 'for their lineage' or 'family'. Borges said that procreation is a mirror, I agree. To me, it only serves to multiply and if you're not careful, ie, you think you'll finally have 'meaning', you'll probably be eaten alive.

But of course, if you aren't thinking about it, and those questions are never broached and the 'genie' isn't out of the bottle. Well, I wish I was like you then haha

It's not voluntary.

Its societal pressures. Our society has changed fundamentally, look at any graph, income inequality, household earning power, household debt, etc.

You can't blame animals who go extinct due to deforestation and habitat loss and say "it's sad they chose to not reproduce"