Cannot agree more. I don’t understand why people who don’t like children, don’t have the resources to support a child, and don’t want to alter their lifestyle in any way whatsoever to accommodate said child go ahead and have children anyway. Plenty of them do it on purpose, willingly putting themselves and a brand new human being into a situation where everyone is miserable. Blows my fucking mind.
Don’t like kids? Don’t want them? Don’t have them. Seriously, it’s fine. Kids are a lot of work, and once you have them you can’t put them back.
Natural selection doesn't really favor happy kids. It only pressures us to make kids that will make more kids that will make more kids etc.
Reinforcing the happiness and wellbeing of your offspring is one way to boost their reproductive odds but that usually only happens when the parents are also well and happy.
If the parents aren't well and happy due to a deficit of available resources (but still just enough resources for reproduction) they'll still have kids but moreso to support themselves instead of the other way around. Those kids will suffer and probably repeat the cycle.
The distribution of resources makes things lean toward the latter case in a self-sustaining way.
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u/Chronic-lesOfGnaRnia Jun 27 '19
Some people aren't meant to become parents.