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Yeah I strongly suspect this is true. Even as someone who has always wanted kids. Seeing my brother parent my niece, and not an older relative or acquaintance, has made it seem achievable whereas before I found the idea incredibly intermediating. We live very far so don't see each other often seeing him interact with her as a toddler for like a three day visit made me want kids, now, not vaguely in the future.
Another thing is the phrase that "your life is over" when you have kids. In places where kids are more integrated you don't change your habits that much you just bring the kids to what you were going to do.
One of the things that is difficult to understand is that having kids is like a second puberty, because it fundamentally changes your motivations and interests. Ask a pre-pubescent boy what he thinks about girls and he'll give a very different answer than he would a few years later. But puberty isn't optional; it just happens (until recently!). For most of human history, kids also just happened eventually. We don't have properly calibrated motivations for things that are just supposed to happen eventually anyway. It's essentially the same reason we don't feel "hungry" for vitamin D: not going outside in the sun was simply not an option for our ancestors, and so there is no well-calibrated mechanism to motivate that behavior. Sex drive worked well enough until we solved that "problem".
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