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Just let it happen. I agree with the antinatalists on one count: They shouldn't have children. If they hate life so much, there is a good chance they'd pass that on to their children one way or another, be it cultural or genetic.


I love life. My kids clearly love being alive. We'll see how it holds up long-term, but I'm rather confident I'll pass on the joy of life to them. If not, they, too, can simply choose not to have kids. There is beauty in this; Aside from just functionally adapting to new circumstances, this way we select for people who, whatever changes may happen, can be happy in the new world we have wrought.


The bigger issue to me is the significant disinformation and ignorance around pregnancy and child rearing that makes people postpone it too much, makes parenthood far more difficult and unpleasant than necessary and ultimately causes people who might have had 3-4 children in another time, instead end up with 1-2.


For example, I know a couple who started late but not super late (after 35), and found out that the wife has a condition that makes conceiving much more difficult. They did eventually have a child after trying for quite some time, but the most interesting part for me was the following: Everyone I talked with about this just completely refused to consider the age component. The wife had a condition, and that condition is the reason, so it can't be age, right? No. The condition is something that can be trivially looked up to both increase in prevalence with age, and to worsen with age. There is a very good chance that had they simply started 10 years earlier, they'd conceived without trouble, not even noticing the yet-to-fully-develop condition.


And this can be generalized. People don't magically have a lower chance to conceive with higher age for no reason. There is always a mechanism - a lot of different mechanisms - and almost every one you can find, you will see that it correlates with age.