I really don't understand how having kids to give back to society became part of the conversation. I don't know anyone who had kids, because they felt pressure to give back to society. That's a totally foreign concept to me.
Just to address this point, having kids is how societies continue on, so it's kind of necessary. When you are old and collecting social security or use Medicare, you are being supported by the younger generation of taxpayers. This is why the fertility rate of a country is so important and why, when it falls to levels too low to be considered "replacement", governments start to worry. This is a big issue in Japan, currently.
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