Or more simply, it’s because having kids is, on average, the meaning of life. We exist to preserve the specie, everything else is a hobby.
Right , that's what I meant by other more "artificial" desires. This one is as natural/biological as it gets and that's why wanting to have them because you want to have them is a perfectly acceptable answer.
Then having one or two should be seen as a huge failure, when you could have dozens.
Re:Having Kids
by sethammons on Saturday December 14, 2019 @01:23PM
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See traditional Mormons and Catholics.
Antinatalist sects have existed within Christianism, but unsurprisingly they tend to fade out.
Re:Having Kids
by dennis_jeeves on Saturday December 14, 2019 @03:35PM
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>Then having one or two should be seen as a huge failure, when you could have dozens.
Lol.
that can be achieved by other means though, through other's children or via longevity
a small percentage of the population can avoid having kids and work a "support role", that's not a new thing. We even codified some of that with priests, monks and nuns. Overall though having kids is the "normal" thing to do and most people do it.
Asking people why they want/wanted kids usually (but not always) results in a loop of they have kids because they wanted kids. Or they want kids because they want kids.
Not that's it not a sufficient answer, just that it's different from some "artificial" wants which can be justified more easily.
My favorite other simple answers were just "I grew up with four siblings and three dogs and I like there to be lots of movement at home" and "I'm not plotting for world domination only to let it go to waste after I die"