EMILY YOFFE: “In our society parents do a wonderful job of portraying the difficulties of having children: the financial burdens, the time drain, the guilt, the exhaustion. But we do a lousy job of getting across something else about parenthood: It’s fun!”
Read the whole thing, which is quite good, especially her comment on a guy who says he’s childless because he read Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb. (“This man didn’t have children because of a book that turned out to be wrong! Even Paul Ehrlich, who predicted that by the 1970s the world would be in the grip of catastrophic famine, had a child!”)