I'm not in a relationship so kids are not exactly on the radar, but it feels like the current progress being made is incredibly backwards, and I wouldn't wanna bring a kid to live in this godforsaken world.
We have the lowest infant mortality, best medical care in human history, few people starve in Western countries. What exactly makes it worse than, say, the 1800s? I will go out on a limb and guess that you spend a lot of time scrolling negative social media. Am I right? That invention is truly the most godforsaken thing in society at this time.
I probably spend more time reading the news than social media, and basically every day there's news about government debt, huge unemployment (10.1%), price of everything is going up, massive layoffs, climate disasters, AI hacking into things, students using AI to cheat, wars happening next door, possible hybrid warfare, megacorporations ignoring the law, governments wanting to track your every movement, and so on. Most people I worked with at my company got laid off and the rest are just terminals for Claude, and any notion of job security is out of the window.