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> Major things that have pushed people to have kids

What about evolutionary pressure - the biological impulse? Or, are we humans post-evolution and have overridden the innate impulse to reproduce?

>>irrati+(OP)
Robust access to contraceptives allows for the act without the burden of the result (if undesired).

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#contraception

>>irrati+(OP)
Yes, that's the emotional angle I mentioned.

> Or, are we humans post-evolution and have overridden the innate impulse to reproduce?

Not entirely, but it it's absolutely common for many people to say they just don't want kids.

Also, the primary thing there is the inmate impulse to have sex, not reproduce. It's just that we've managed to disconnect sex from reproduction.

>>toomuc+51
Is the impulse to reproduce the same as the impulse to have sex?

>>irrati+F5
What does the fertility rate and surveys of people of reproductive age tell us?

>>toomuc+N5
Well, the recent studies say nobody is having sex anymore, especially among the younger generations. So, people are not having sex and people are not having children. I’m not sure what that says. If people were having sex without having kids, that would mean something, but that isn’t the reality.

>>irrati+sG
Consider asking Pew Research. info at pewresearch dot org. They have an "Ask the Expert" service which is equivalent to a research assistant for their corpus and methodologies.

>>irrati+(OP)
people in today world are disconnected from their "nature", we are made to be seminomad huntergatherers living in small tribes of kin. A lot of our wants are a surrogate of our biology, like the craving for sugars/fats. A lot of societal/mental ills can be correlated to such disconnection

>>irrati+sG
> So, people are not having sex and people are not having children. I’m not sure what that says.

Hey, there could be a connection here! Do we know where children come from?