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I'm 56. Today, we got legal custody of our 13 month old son, whom we are adopting. Three grown children; five grandchildren age 1-6. Their future matters more to me than my own. I'm deeply concerned for the second half of this century; I want my loved family to have a better life than I've had.

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I'm in my early 20's.

I'll not be having children because I believe that we will be facing mass extinction events in ~2030's, so I think it's immoral to bring another person into that.

If that’s your belief, why bother doing anything productive at all like earning a paycheck or learning a skill. What if you’re wrong? What does that cost you?

> why bother doing anything productive at all

Just because there's something awful in the future doesn't mean you should throw away the present.

> What if you’re wrong? What does that cost you?

If he's wrong it costs him having raised a child. If on the other hand he's right but assumes he's wrong then it'll cost him having raised a child into a terrible world. It's a tough choice to make.

Same boat. I care way more about the long term after becoming a father.

And fathers who have daughters are more empathetic to equal pay, reproductive rights, etc.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/msen/publications/identifying-ju...

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