If a person doesn’t want kids, or only wants one, what’s it to you?
My gripe is that I often see the WRONG people having kids—single moms or people who will require public assistance to raise their kids. In the past, the best and the brightest often had the most kids. Now they have the fewest. Sometimes (in the case of Ted) its to chase material stuff. Other times, it’s because they feel the need to minimize their carbon footprint, or some other such nonsense. IMHO, that does not bode well for the future.
But, hey, its a free society, so anyone is certainly entitled to make these decisions.
Exactly.
I’m reminded by the opening scenes of “Idiocracy”, where they examine the procreation habits of two couples.
The first is an intelligent, upwardly mobile, educated and wealthy couple. They’re first say they’re waiting for each of them to complete their Master’s degrees, then they’re waiting for the market to return, etc.
You see them aging, while remaining childless but trying.
Ultimately, the husband dies tring to “extract” sperm for in-vitro. The wife ages and remains childless.
Meanwhile, you see trailer trash copulating with multiple partners, producing offspring that procreate just as wildly. Their offspring outnumbers the intelligent by 16:1.
So much truth in that movie.