Of course parents and families want the best for their children - the point I was making is that it is presumptive of them to wish that those children had never been born.

No sane person would want their children to grow up in a war zone but that doesn’t mean they weren’t wanted.

As for the baby boom following the end of WW2 - surely the most likely explanation for this is that there were hundreds of thousands of men returning from war, many of whom had not had female company for years!