There are all sorts of cultural reasons. It’s certainly not just us who are having fewer children (I have 2, btw) - it’s spread all over.
A lot of it is, raising kids well is a lot of hard work, and by the time you’re done with the first batch you’re wearing down, so you can’t space it out. And if you didn’t go the kids route up front, prioritizing anything else, then you don’t even get that first batch. It doesn’t need to be lambda calculus that keeps you out of the maternity ward.
Healthful longevity would go a long way to undoing that—if women in their 40s and 50s or older could have babies with no problem, and kept the energy from when they were 25 or 30, I wonder how many would. And those who did, could again. My wife and I would lean towards it, I think.
There are all sorts of cultural reasons. It’s certainly not just us who are having fewer children (I have 2, btw) - it’s spread all over.
A lot of it is, raising kids well is a lot of hard work, and by the time you’re done with the first batch you’re wearing down, so you can’t space it out. And if you didn’t go the kids route up front, prioritizing anything else, then you don’t even get that first batch. It doesn’t need to be lambda calculus that keeps you out of the maternity ward.
Healthful longevity would go a long way to undoing that—if women in their 40s and 50s or older could have babies with no problem, and kept the energy from when they were 25 or 30, I wonder how many would. And those who did, could again. My wife and I would lean towards it, I think.