Ok , I want to be as brief as possible on that. First of all I want to be child free. No plans to raise children , no marriage ,ect. And I want to say why cause most people at my age don't get it. Here are some arguments in favour of breeding:
Giving birth= the meaning of live
Giving birth= the meaning of live of a rabbit. Humans can do much more than this. Besides surving of the human race is not in danger , on the cotrary other species are in danger because of us.
Family=hapiness
Not really at least not in all cases. Having children authomatically means that you'll have to live till 80+ years old age , and you'll have to live because of the children and most of the cases if not all only because of them. You've made them now you'll have to take responsability till the rest of your life. And if you have great children you'll probably will have to play the role of babysister. I have other plans. And of course : dependance ,total dependance both sides are interdependant children need parents , and most parents which already have children will not agree their children to be taken away of them.(Ok , mine are exception)
Money!
Love it or hate it you need money to raise children , love won't give them clothes , toys , textbooks , foot and other distractions. And besides parents' love is conditional (at least in most cases) , parents' want something in return for all this. (" You live in our house , we feed you therefore you have to have an "A" on math , you have to be better than the other students , you have to study this and this , you have to get in this and that college , you have to continue in this and that uni , you have to provide us great children. If you don't do this you're embarrassing us and other people would think we're bad parents.") And the children didn't asked to be born in a first place , we placed them here. Once this is done , there's no undo button. However even if the child live in an extra poor family s/he will not understand his/her condition until get in a communication with other children. Children have not the necessery base to comapare. One example to explain what I'm tolking about : when I was 7 years old I thinked that all families lived in a two rooms hired out appartments (cause we lived in such a place by that time) all parents were quarreling 24/7 for stupid things and that all mothers yelled at their children as you yell at cattle. You have no idea how surprised I was when I understood that it wasn't so , I even told at first grade to my classmetes how my parents are qurreling cause I considered it normal and thinked that everybody lived like that and got very surprised from their reactions. Then I wanted the things the other kids had by birth like : some free time , quiet , my own room when I could have guests and play with them but unfortunately I had to wait years for that things to come and all that time thinking how it wasn't fair cause my school results were better but I didn't get what others get for their "C"s. So don't you ever think that love will compensate all this , It won't. Not mentionning that they're still guerelling but this time they assume me that my school resuslts are the main reason for all their quarells about the remote , the Tv chanell and so on.
Yeah , if this is the typical parents' love I assume you that no child need such thing. But of course I can speak only for personal experience.
Breeding = helping the ethnos /nation /race
If this is the best thing one can do for one's nation that should be considered a lack of patriotism. What about talent , scientific discoveries or for most people starting a business , giving a job to fellow citizens , or working as a lawyer , a policeman , a dictor and so on. There are famous people like John Atanasov and Valia Balkanska who were and still are (in the second case) bulgarians , they aren't famous because of reproduction. What about all that sportsmans? Did they get their medals because of reproduction? No.
(Ok , there were medals in nazi Germany for having 4+ children. I think the madal was called "mother's cross")
Having children= God's will
Ok imagine just for a second that Yehova is a candidate for premier in the next elections in your country. What would be His campagne? Maybe something like this:
-love your enemies (no need of court , laws , jails , we love criminals)
-turn the other cheek (yeah sure , if you were beaten , robbed , raped let them beat you , rob you and rape you again)
- multiply!!!
-give all you have to charities (and how I'm going to raise my children when I can't even pay the electriciry bills?)
-it is Ok to beat your slave just don't kill him/her. (Jesus , somewhere in the Bible)
Would you vote for Yehovah , guys? I wouldn't.
Not mentionning it is a little strange for a religion which glorify death and suffering to encourage child breeding .
And most religions glorify death not only Christianity. (ok Buddism doen't ..I think).