We called our son yesterday. He said, “I can’t talk to you today. I’ll call when I can.”
This.
He has told us more than once that he doesn’t plan to have children, and it is definitely due to his dystopian view of the future. He is not as concerned about superpower posturing or nuclear war as he is his certainty that our doom is already sealed by the combined effects of automation disenfranchising an entire population and spawning an unsustainably growing underclass and the escalation of climate change crises that will drive us to resource wars. He knows he is privileged and that he would be able to provide well for a family while he is alive, but his timeline for when he believes these events will degrade the quality of life on the planet for all overlaps his children’s lifetime so, responsibly, no go.
ETA: His current GF does not want children either. Now I’m wondering if that is a criteria he uses to select mates.