I noticed when I was very young that the pressure to have children was strong in America. I also noticed that my parents weren’t very happy most of the time. Then I grew up had two children of my own and became an elementary teacher and what I witnessed as a child was reinforced.

Not many happy people in the world.

The need to have children is a biological instinct no different than rabbits or monkeys. All Animals are programmed to produce in order to keep the species from going extinct. Easiest thing in the world to do. Takes almost no thought.

What’s challenging is providing a good home life and leaving behind a better world for all the children we insist on having. Once you begin to educate yourself, awareness increases, and thus the casual approach to breeding feels risky, full of consequences. Suddenly we have knowledge and with knowledge comes responsibility.