[bpbp-mango]

What a ridiculous attitude. The world will always have problems you cannot control. People have been having babies in all sorts of adversity for all of history.

[anonymars]

Why is this ridiculous? If the topic is about the baby boom, surely "optimism" at the end of WWII plays a big role. (Unsurprisingly, birth rates during the Great Depression had plummeted)

[anon291]

The entire male populace suffered from PTSD, and substantial portions from combat induced disability. My goodness... If that's optimism imagine today.

[Qem]

> People have been having babies in all sorts of adversity for all of history.

Anatomically modern humans exist for ~100,000-200,000 years. Reliable contraception widely available is something that didn't exist until ~60 years ago. So we can't just use past performance to predict the future.

[louwrentius]

Because things are supposedly “normal”, or happened “for all of history” it doesn’t make it right or moral in any way.

I expect better, more thoughtful replies on HN than this.

[bpbp-mango]

having kids is, by default, right and moral.

[triceratops]

> People have been having babies in all sorts of adversity for all of history

But they didn't know how screwed they were.

[floren]

I think literal chattel slaves knew they were pretty bad off but they still had kids.

(If you implied sarcasm I apologize, it's extremely hard to tell when dealing with HN posters)