The consumerism of the West has got everyone thinking having children is very expensive and they are never financially secure enough to have them. It's also got people working too much and spending all their off time and money on bullshit like stuff, and vacations, so they are in this perpetual of cycle of "never settle down" until they become too old to do anything worthwhile and they have no children or grand children to raise and they just quietly die as dead-ends to their family tree.
Childless, husbandless women in their 30's are some of the most depressing and lonely people in the world.
Childless, husbandless women in their 30's are some of the most depressing and lonely people in the world.