No one should pressure another person about whether to have children, since it is too personal a decision to be anyone else's business.

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• Parents have an obligation to talk up having children, because the case against is made a thousand times louder than the case for. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson18 Sept 2024
• Having children is not a niche or selfish lifestyle choice, and people without children shouldn't bear the costs of a structure that fails everyone. MAMari Andrew6 Apr 2026
• Raising one’s own children is no smaller a career than teaching other people’s GCG. K. Chestertonc. 1910
• Letting one calculation take over a giving decision is disturbing, and there is still a strong case for it if you want your ethics to be principled and about other people. HKHolden Karnofsky15 Feb 2022
• Once women control their own fertility they have children only when they expect a reward for it, so the case for parenthood has to compete with everything else on offer. AEAlice Evans1 Jul 2025

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