On: Why people don't want to have children any more

[wryoak]

People who have no hope for the future don’t bother trying to avoid having kids either though, and rarely does hopelessness result in giving up the kind of indulgences that result in unplanned children - it more often increases their appeal

I think your analysis sounds nice (to ears of a particular temperament) but is quite easily dismissed as poppycock

[schiffern → wryoak]

  >rarely does hopelessness result in giving up the kind of indulgences that result in unplanned children

"Indulge?" Your inner Protestant is showing. ;)

When and where human life is sufficiently cheap, the usual solution is (of course) quiet and unacknowledged infanticide.

[maverwa → wryoak]

That assumes that those people care very little about those potential offsprings.