[steve_barham]

They did have time-choice; they chose to allocate a substantial portion of it to having children.

[calibraxis]

Not in a meaningful sense, given that the species should probably have a next generation. It's work that needs to be done.

Society can make the work a lot less onerous, restoring that time-choice. (And various societies through time had quite sensible solutions, though of course war and violence destroys sensible living arrangements.) For instance, the common atomized family is incredibly inefficient duplication of work.

[EdwardDiego]

> they chose to allocate a substantial portion of it to having children.

The good parents did.