Comment by dragonwriter

> Child rearing

For what purpose?

> it is our evolutionary “purpose” to reproduce

Yes evolution selects for having children survive to reproduce, but that’s not a purpose, that’s just “that which continues, continues”.

> and most people in the developed world today aren’t doing it.

Plenty of species have evolved such that when they sufficiently saturafe their environment and resource carrying capacity, reproduction rates drop through behavior changes based on various signals.