Fantastic post, @riverflows, your story really speaks volumes. You bring up so many great points about not wanting to be adding to the suffering of the world, and about the luxuries of the Western world in the choice to have fewer children. One thing that interests me is that here in the US we are not replacing ourselves, our growth rate is 1.7 children. All of our growth as a nation depends entirely upon immigration (Need to have two children to at least replace each couple, 3 for growth). It seems, though, that developed nations trend towards this decline in growth. Makes me wonder what will happen when the whole world has been "developed."

Also..If only shitty people (lack of better term?) are having children, then won't the future surely be shitty?