I have 5 kids and hopefully will have many more in the next forty years. It is expensive but worth it. I have to make a lot of money to break even, but that’s what a patriarch does. I think it’s fine if people choose not to have kids. Some people are not cut out to have children, some people physically can’t, and some never meet the right partner with which to conceive. There are also many ways to support children if you are not blessed to have them biologically. Being a foster or adoptive parent is such a blessing.