Who'd be a parent?

Not many people these days, it would seem.
I've just watched a forum show called Insight (on SBS) about Australia's fertility crisis and it raised some interesting points.
The main facts are hardly surprising - Australia has a fertility crisis. People are delaying marriage and children, so often they leave it too late, or just have one child. Parents are becoming older and older (as a woman who had her first child at 30, I feel very very young as a Mum).
People these days don't want to have kids. And I can understand that, I really can. Why would you want to give up a nice lifestyle, great income and the freedom to do what you want, when you want?
But there are other contributing factors. As one commentator on the show said, we just don't live in a children-centred society anymore. How many people do you know in their 20s and 30s with kids? How many TV shows feature children? Seinfeld, Friends, Sex and the City and the like have helped create a no-children norm.
And, as (Sex Discrimination Commissioner) Pru Goward pointed out, children are contagious. If you don't grow up around them, or have friends with them, how on earth do you know about them? Many women in their 30s these days have never held an infant before they hold their own.
What kind of society is this creating?
I'm not advocating that all of us drop everything and have children now, now, NOW.
But the consequences of a child-free society are something we'll all have to deal with.