atheism and children

[Jenny A]

I'm not sure atheists as a group really are less likely to have or want kids.  I think your perception might be a correlation error.

In the U.S. people have been having fewer children later for some time now and that a trend that's growing faster than atheism.  Most of our U.S. members are pretty young (at least by my middle aged standards).  The birth rate in Europe is down even further.  And we have many Europeans, not to mention British members.  Perhaps both atheism (or at least secularism) and a low birth rate are symptoms of something else, like education, access to birth control, career women, the cost of raising and educating kids, or something else.

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I do have children, or I guess really young adults.  The girls are 18 and 16 and they are my bright, loving, funny, joy.  And I'm very glad I have them.  But I didn't want kids until I met their daddy.  His kids, I wanted to have.   And he is a very good daddy.