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Re:Ask HN: What are the benefits to having children nowadays? by frontman1988 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:20PM (#31990205)
The primal drive is only of sex. Most people throughout history wanted sex, not babies. But now with birth control people have the choice. It's the reason why the fertility rate is declining in most developed countries. I think if birth control existed in the time of Jesus, then also a large majority of people would have chosen to be childfree or have only 1-2 kids
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Re:Ask HN: What are the benefits to having children nowadays? by pmichaud on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:16AM (#32015163)
I think sex is a tightly related primal drive, but no, I think literally children is something similar, mostly for slightly older people, mostly women, but with plenty of young people and men feeling it too. I know a lot of people like this, it seems to come in a wave at a certain life stage.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the benefits to having children nowadays? by dementiapatien on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:54PM (#31990668)
>The primal drive is only of sex.

What about people who turn down sex when they know the other party can't have kids?

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