The Need for Children

I am puzzled as to how humanity survives to my time with the average family having 2.3 kids.  I figure many bloodlines are lost between now and my time due to this irresponsible behavior.  There is a reason as to why birth control is a great sin and in my time is not acceptable at all.

What happens when the government needs soldiers to send to war?  At only 2.3 children per family, there is no way to supply enough young men to help make a real difference.  The army needs as many men as possible to send into a warzone so we can over run the enemy and not be weakened by heavy casualties. It is the duty of every patriotic working class to produce as many children as possible to help secure our freedoms.

I also do not understand how any parents would want to have so few children and risk having none left to carry on the family name.  In my time, with us living up to our responsibility to the Koch-Trump Alliance and our family, we work hard and sometimes due to our own carelessness we get injured and sometimes workers die.  If families are not producing enough children, then those poor parents are most likely to find themselves without any children in the end.

So many couples clearly do not actually care about their children enough to make sure that some will live to adulthood.