Personally, I think that a lot of people who have children are selfish. The world is cruel and random, and that child will inevitably face suffering whether or not you think you can give it a good home, love, care, etc. And there are so many parents that try to project or impose their own agendas onto their kids, like people that want their little boy to be a doctor, or their little girl to be a model, perhaps because they failed at it themselves and want to live through their youngsters.
And what if it comes out physically and/or mentally disabled? How can you live with yourself knowing that you took that kind of risk and that child is now going to suffer worse than most, and is going to feel ostracized, as if he won't get to do all the things a "normal" person could do? You can't see the future; you don't know if it's just going to give up and hang itself. And after 18 years, it's likely just going to go off and, I dunno, have its own life, and then you'll be alone. That time-killer, that period of happiness, will be gone.
Not to mention the strain on resources that the ever-growing population is making. People often fail to realize that we're not alone and we don't live alone. I'm not the biggest fan of humans either, but at least I acknowledge that even some of the smallest actions I do can impact in a very big and potentially negative way on other people. But no, we'll just sit back, ignore the cycle and continue spawning babies that'll eventually go into oblivion. The existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon, and humanity destroying itself after along wouldn't be a bad thing. It might even be a good thing, if you look what a stewing hell-hole this planet is. I honestly find it difficult to see, the global scale of things, what's so fucking great about it. It's all shit, and those that say otherwise are probably delusional idealists living in a bubble, blissfully ignorant to the true horrors of Earth. You can't blame people for being pessimists when life has screwed them over with no mercy or sign of stopping, as if you're just stuck in an eternal tornado of pain and misfortune.
The fact of the matter is, people have kids for themselves. They don't know what that child will be like, they don't know what'll grow into. They don't know shit, other than their own selfish dream of a happy family, and then they inconvenience everyone else around them. I'm not grateful to my mother for giving birth to me. And you know, if I really had to be given birth to, I'd much rather have had a different, good family. It feels like a curse.
Let me get this straight. I don't dislike people that have kids, except for certain irresponsible cases. I just don't agree with it.
