Who in their right mind would want to bring a bunch of babies into such a violent world like the one in this game?
Not ranting at you in particular, but I’m kind of tired of hearing this line (it comes up a lot in in-story too when it comes to postapocalyptic games).
Simply put, if you believe in having children at all (i.e. you aren’t an antinatalist) then it’s pointless to wait for a “good time”—your crapsack world going through a zombie apocalypse isn’t going to fix itself just to give you the opportunity to have kids. Humans have continued having children during wars, droughts, epidemics, etc.—it’s how the species has stayed alive. Should everybody in the world have stopped making children during WWII? That would have been absurd.
Moreover, half the time I hear this line in-game, they’re saying they shouldn’t have kids because it would be bad for the girls to get pregnant now—as in, this very instant—as though they would swell overnight and be rendered incapable of moving on the spot. I swear it’s like the writers who bring this up don’t realize that pregnancy takes a few months to even start being visible, let alone become a significant hindrance, and you only have to deal with an actual kid nine months later.