Let’s be honest: children are usually forced on people. It was simply an expectation of your family and society in general for you to have children. This pressure is gone in western societies.

"How dare you asking me when I will have children?"

It’s also not necessary to have kids for retirement anymore.

Look at the top 3 countries with the highest fertility rates over the last 10 years:

- Chad - Somalia - DR Congo

Outside of Africa it’s Afghanistan and Yemen.

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foobarian 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I think if artificial wombs ever succeed it will turn the world upside down

	▲	overfeed an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks to inequality, the rich[1] can already afford surrogacy, aka other people's natural wombs. Only for those who can easily afford daycare and other child-related costs would benefit from artificial wombs, the biological aspect and maternity leave are a small aspect. 1. i.e. FAANG employees