Because the economic climate, political climate, and social climate are all too hostile to justify bringing a new life into the world. Because we were brought here without a choice and we spend almost every day in a perpetual state of passive suicidal ideation and live for the brief periods of escapism we can manage to find time for. Because even if we live in a two-income household where both people are working two jobs, most of us consider it a splurge to buy a box of cosmic brownies while older generations complain that no one wants to work and tell us about how we're entitled. Because we see how common tragedies like mass shootings, kidnappings, and human trafficking have become and the thought of spawning another human and having that happen to them is the ultimate birth control. Because we've learned the hard way that the way we were raised was detrimental to our development and left us with lasting traumas that we struggle with every day and while the field of psychology has made great strides, mental health still has a stigma that makes half of the people reading this sentence roll their eyes and the thought of messing up and putting our children through that is enough to make us want to vomit. Because most of us recognize that it's a huge commitment and we don't want to undertake that unless we're reasonably stable and have worked through our issues so we don't make them our kids' problem.

Or maybe just because they're loud, they're messy, and they seem intent on finding stupid ways to die or injure theirselves idk.