Quote Originally Posted by SilverKnight View Post
Is like a couple that is struggling financially and within their relationship, that wants more kids and material things that they can't afford to have.
On the other hand in older times almost noone had enough money for children and the population growth was astonishing, and was a basis of human civilization. Once (almost) everyone started to care whether they can afford to have enough children and whether they want to our societies started to face a demographical crisis with not enough children be born to sustain the existing population.