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From a biological standpoint, those individuals are simply culling their own genes from the gene pool and therefore effectively evolutionally selecting for people who want to have children, causing the exact opposite of what they want. Rather ironic.


Considering how birth rates have dropped across the globe over the last century, it clearly isn't dominated by genetic factors. Wanting to have children is far more memetic than genetic.




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