
honestly i really think the amount of people (men and women) who truly genuinely want kids and who are ready to be parents is wayyy lower than anyone thinks. single women couldn’t even get birth control by themselves until the 70s!! we’re living through one of the first generations where women actually have reproductive control and i think it’s proving that a lot less of us actually want to be mothers than people assumed. but also with how expensive everything is that definitely factors in too