It’s not about overstuffing the planet, it’s about sustainable population. Right now in the developed world, having children is increasingly becoming something that only the well-off can afford can do. If it continues this way, this will become even more apparent. For example, right now in developed countries, on average, it costs a quarter of a million to raise one child. Close to half a million for two.

That’s absolutely outrageous. If those who wanted kids could financially afford to have kids, I would like to bet that developed countries would not be having such big problems with falling birth rates. More likely it would be sustainable levels with a slight reduction over time before it stabilised at a set level rather than a cliff edge.

In terms of developing countries, as they develop, they will simply end up with the same problem which is being consistently shown by the evidence. Children in developing countries bring financial benefits to their families, children in developed countries typically are — at least financially speaking — financial burdens. That should never be the case.

All in all, it is simply not right and will never be right to create a system in which only increasingly the wealthy can afford to have children.

That’s why it’s imperative that we reverse the trend of technological advancement and development resulting in increasingly higher costs for having children, and instead use technological advancement to lower the cost.

So, this post is not about persuading more people to have children and telling people they should be having children, it is about creating a world where those who want children can afford to have those children.

Increasingly, the evidence has shown that there are a lot of people who would have happily had children but never did because they could never afford to do so. That’s not right. It needs to change.

PS on a side note the only way that population numbers will start to fall globally, is if developed nations make a far more concerted effort to attempt to help developing nations reach developed status.

This counts especially in the areas of healthcare. Evidence consistently shows that if you massively reduce the child mortality rate, the outcome is an advancement toward modern-style family planning. So, the adoption of contraception, universal education for both men and women, and much more. But the developing world problem is a separate issue from the developed world problem.

The problem is we have two separate problems going on. In the developing world, the population is still booming due to the said problems mentioned in this article. In the developed world, the problem is the opposite due to as said the paradox of technological development leading to children becoming ever more costly.