Having children requires being OK with the mess and disorder that children inevitably cause within the home. Some people are more OK with this than others, comfortable in messy environments. Others may even have a deep phobia about living in such environments. How do such preferences and phobias develop?
Hypothesize that this mechanism is at work in the tendency of a population to have less children as they become more affluent, as famously observed in Japan. Perhaps messiness is seen, or self-perceived, as a symptom of mental weakness, and thus risks social class demotion. Proper people keep things neat and tidy.
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