We're seeing the needle here in the US moving towards young couples making having children a priority, at least amongst conservatives. I think Elon Musk has been a driver of this with his warning of population collapse. Part of the issue here is the insanely high cost of living and student debt. Young couples were convinced the "responsible thing" to do was to wait until they could afford to have children but the trouble with that is when that day comes they're reaching the age where fertility begins to dip and it becomes more difficult. On the other hand, Americans on public assistance are incentivized for having more children because it increases their monthly welfare payment amounts with each new child. This is a crazy country in so many ways. I never had any biological children myself (but do have a stepson). I was one of the ones who were convinced that waiting was "the responsible thing" but now I sometimes have regrets. I wonder what the experience of raising my own children would have been like. In retrospect, I think it would have been fun and enriching. We were just at the park the other day and this young couple, probably in their early to mid-thirties, pulled up to the park and they had six children (newborn to about age 8)! They had just come from church and were all dressed up. I haven't seen a young family that large in public since the 1970's, it was quite common back then.