Comment by olau

Perhaps it is becoming more clear that the current reproduction rates are unsustainable if they persist.

Anyway, I have a bunch of kids, and I think from a motivational perspective, yes, kids give you meaning for some years.

But they can also help you with something else due to the necessary self-sacrifices, which is getting a out of egocentric thoughts, such as what you're going to do with your life. Read a book on biology. You are a bunch of cells put in the world to cooperate to feed and reproduce before they self-terminate to leave space for the offspring. That's it. Stop fretting. :)

(Helping society and thereby the offspring of other bunches of cells is pretty noble too, by the way.)