How about being a dick makes you less inclined to have children? I’m inclined to believe selfish people are less inclined to have children (there will be ‘some’ that see them as a trophy, but fewer than the ones that don’t want them at all).

I have a kid, and I'm very sad about the state of the world my daughter going to live. I was relatively lucky, she is not. If I didn't have her, I'm sure I would care much much less about stuff I failed to change for the better, it would be much easier to say "f.k it, that's natural order of things, history repeats itself", give up and live my life fast and lose.