I talked about the obstacles and the pain. The hard work. How it breaks your body and your soul.   

I can say all that. And also say that it is a rare animal... a mom... that wouldn't run toward her child in danger and take the bullet without a thought. If mine call, I am on my way with my hair on fire. I cannot get there fast enough to help, stop the whatever, make it better, protect. They hand you that baby and you forget you had a labor pain, or a C-section and you do whatever it takes because this is a love that is so profound it can be compared to nothing else.

It's a big job. One you really need to think about before you do it.  

Neither of my daughters want kids. The Saggie is this tiny 100 lb 4' 11" thing who doesn't want to destroy her body. She'd have to have a c section. She also isn't meeting anyone that suits her.

Neither is Baby Scorp. She's still in college and still figuring it all out.

Mr. Cap wants kids, but he can't even find anyone to date, let alone marry. The girls have been burned by assholes and I can't blame them.

I think all this will even out and this generation will marry much later than mine (Gen X) did.

ETA This might point to Gen Z having Neptune in Aquarius and Pluto in Sagittarius, the two most independent signs. The Saggie has that Pluto right on her Sun. The other kids have Venus conjunct Pluto in Sagittarius. Freedom, baby!

Child-Free is the term I use to describe myself. 

At the age I would have considered breeding I had an ovary and benign tumour removed, plus I had P.C.O.S. With assistance I could have conceived, but my partner and I decided against it. 

We both feel emotionally fulfilled with our shared love for our pets. We refer to ourselves as parents of fur kids. We feel completely happy with the decision we made.

By the time I was ready it was too late. I also didn't want to bring a child into this world as a single mother.
My parents met in high school and are still married 55 years later. (Although they drive each other nuts). I also grew up next door to my maternal grandparents, the neighborhood was full of older kids who watched out for us young ones.

I also wasn't ready because I was always very conscious, from a young age, of the immense responsibility. And as a Cap sun I was pretty much in charge of my Air Head parents & Leo brothers from day one. You see, I was the parental unit until I left home at 17 for college.

There was one boyfriend, 'the one that got away' and we should have got married but we f'd it up. And to this day we both know we were supposed to be together. He married someone else, no children.

Perfect strangers will have no problems asking me if I have a husband or kids. My answer is that I wanted to but it didn't work out for me. That usually stops the inquisition.
Don't be fooled though, I get an underlying vibe from certain members of society that I've failed the expectations in my role as a perfectly good female who threw it away by being cautious.

After thinking more about this I have to edit to add that with the moon in Pisces at the top of my chart I've been raising up other people's kids as a skating coach, nanny and working with special needs students. Let's not even go into the grown folks I raised up too lol

I see your perspective Elsa and I agree. There’s social engineering. It’s existed forever probably and I think it’s just a neutral response to the chaos that nature subjects us to. Religion, art, political structures are all solutions to the violence of nature. There’s definitely times it has gone overboard though or not been effective or has been a little too experimental but order is definitely something that is necessary. 

That being said, I think many people think their desires are their own but maybe they aren’t? Or maybe they are and the social engineering picks up on a naturally occurring collective desire that arose naturally? There seems to be a balancing act. Probably Libra and Saturn rule things like this. There’s problems created with every new answer to an old problem. There were problems with the Baby Boom that was obviously orchestrated as an answer to some kind of problem within industrialization and there will be problems with this too Im guessing. We need workers but not too many. Maybe some see this and see the benefit. Some are on some other kind of thread or an older (maybe even primal) agenda. Maybe it’s Nature’s agenda vs mans agenda or maybe it’s all mans agenda. Who tf knows. 

For me personally I take a neutral stance. Society wants to thrive and I take that as a given. How much control is too much is the question I ask. I understand there needs to be structure but I also understand that there has to be a space held ALWAYS for chaos and Nature. We can’t control everything.