^^ Thanks for your comment! No, I didn't actually have someone telling me this to my face, per se. But I've had conversations with people about this previously, who were like, "omg WHY do you want to have a kid?? Don't you know that one person in the US uses as much resources as ten people in Nigeria?!?" or some such. But recently I came across a blog post that just...infuriated me with this same notion. And I know if I were to talk to this person directly, they would say exactly that to me.

And very good point about the detriment of the US going into negative population growth. The world depends on the US just as much as we depend on them, albeit for different things. If the US economy were to completely collapse due to negative population growth, the precarious situations in Europe and Asia would quickly follow suit. No one seems to realize that, as well.