“Individual autonomy is among the great benefits of the secular West. We are liberated from the obligation to reproduce ourselves. It’s all about choice, as it should be. Too bad there’s no way, at least none that I can think of, to get young liberal westerners to choose parenthood.”

Fair enough, really: we bitch and moan when people who can’t support their children have them, and we bitch and moan when people put off having children in order to secure their finances. So my sympathies lean toward Rachel Garrick: you want me to save the nation by having kids, then make it worth my while.