Today, Explain is the program. I'm Sean Ramos firm and I recently became the father of a daughter,

but I didn't always know if I wanted kids. In fact, I distinctly remember being at a bar with

some of my oldest friends one night in my 20s, and my buddy Jeff said he wanted to have kids,

and I was shocked. We were 25. We never talked about kids, but he knew he wanted them. How

did he know? It sounds like something I would say. I asked him this week, 15 or so years later.

I wanted to pursue something bigger than myself, and that was something I could relate to at the

time. It all worked out for Jeff, who now has two daughters and is super into them, but it doesn't

go so well for everyone. More and more people in the United States are deciding not to have

kids. Birth rates just hit yet another record low, and some people out there are having kids

and regretting the decision.

We're going to hear from a few of them on Today Explain from Vox.

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