Didn’t China reason the same thing only to have a population crisis that saw the creation of a strict one-child policy that further gave rise to a terrible gender imbalance due to the favouring of sons and even worse epidemics of mental health relating to high pressure to marry and carry the bloodline despite there being far more men than women, crushingly high expectations of sons juxtaposed against what came to be called “little emperor syndrome” since all attention in a family was placed on the singular child making them both conceited narcissists and prone to complete collapse at falling short of impossible expectations, women bucking the global suicide trend to be the majority of suicides because they’re pretty much hated for being born as they are not heirs that “add anything” to the family and their lives are devoid of love or fulfillment or even the barest acknowledgement, a job crisis that made sweatshop labour communism attractive, and just… SO MUCH Western civilization has spent decades smugly mocking them for?
I seem to remember something like that happening but as we’re all being conditioned to know: History can be rewritten for “truth” to spare our feelings at any moment. “Every stomach comes with a pair of hands” or something along that line? And going by that logic why not look to immigration for population and workforce “shortfalls” to keep the economy strong? Oh wait, adding a racial context “changes everything” doesn’t it? Because heaven forbid the population grows through immigration rather than “purebred” children raised “the right way” to see nothing but themselves as legitimate inheritors of the world.
The only “reason” to have a child is that you are ready, willing, and able to love and provide for them. Not to “complete” the family. Not for “legacy” or “duty” to a bloodline. Not because “it’s your purpose to exist” like you don’t matter and never will nor will that child by that logic. Not for a religious imperative. Not because you “owe” it to anyone. Not because you have some grand plan for them beyond them maturing into the best person they can be with the best shot at making their own life. But because you are ready, willing, able, and have chosen to devote yourself to one more life in the world.