As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. - Germaine Greer

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.

We could see that our mothers blackmailed us with self-sacrifice, even if we did not know whether or not they might have been great opera stars or toasts of the town if they had not borne us. In our intractable moments we pointed out that we had not asked to be born, or even to go to an expensive school. We knew that they must have had motives of their own for what they did with us and to us. The notion of our parents' self-sacrifice filled us not with gratitude but with confusion and guilt. We wanted them to be happy yet they were sad and deprived and it was our fault.

The disastrous
step to marriage as the end of the story, and the assumption
of ‘living happily ever after’ had not yet been taken. One of the most
significant apologists of marriage as a way of life and a road to salvation
was Shakespeare. It is still to be proved how much we owe
of what is good in the ideal of exclusive love and cohabitation to
Shakespeare, but one thing is clear — he was as much concerned in
his newfangled comedies to clear away the detritus of romance,
ritual, perversity and obsession as he was to achieve happy endings,
and many of the difficulties in his plays are resolved when we can
discern this principle at work. Transvestism is a frequently discussed
Shakespearean motif, but it is rarely considered as a mode of revelation
as well as a convention productive of the occasional frisson.