This is catch 22 because children literally are the future economy and represent the growth of the nation, they are vital in multiple ways.
  A country which cannot support its children has in effect failed and seriously needs to readjust its priorities back towards growth.    In times of world war perhaps we can say otherwise but it should be a temporary condition or you will suffer massive harm to your culture, to the economy and demographically the economy will not support itself without enough workers to support pensioners and so on.  
   Technology can only replace so much and we gained a massive amount of progress in the past few decades but technology cannot entirely replace people only refine their labor towards greater efficiency.
  
Its such a modern failure that we accept so many people are not there who should be and populations and countries are shrinking in many parts of the world, this is a kind of self defeat others think it best somehow.

This is catch 22 because children literally are the future economy and represent the growth of the nation, they are vital in multiple ways.
  A country which cannot support its children has in effect failed and seriously needs to readjust its priorities back towards growth.