Have you ever met someone through a club and thought that, despite various unavoidable circumstances preventing you from getting married, you’d still like to have a child together?

Absolutely not. Thinking of the child, there’s a risk they could be subjected to hurtful comments at school and elsewhere, just like a child born to an unmarried partner. For a child, having parents who get along matters less than having parents who lavish them with love and never hold back when it comes to providing for them.

Even with love, a child will probably be unhappy if there isn’t enough money or a stable environment. Love doesn’t solve everything. Try to stay calm and imagine what life would be like for the child who would be born. I think it’s better to avoid doing anything reckless.

The short answer is no. I don’t think your perspective is particularly unusual, but I found it somewhat self-righteous. In particular, I can’t agree that children of couples who love each other are necessarily happier. The reason is that children have no say in the matter, so the couple’s happiness doesn’t necessarily translate into the child’s happiness. Generally speaking, relationships without legal protection tend to be unstable, with limited rights. It’s difficult to define what happiness means, but especially in Japan, I believe such children inevitably face restrictions on their legal rights. Besides, when it comes to dating clubs, choosing to have children is actually the exception rather than the rule.

Not at the moment. Do you really know what makes a child happy? If the parents of someone you fell in love with were on bad terms, then no matter how much you loved that person, it would mean they were unhappy, wouldn’t it?

It’s easy to make a child, but raising one is hard. I don’t think a child’s happiness depends on whether their parents get along. Actually, you owe an apology to every woman doing papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) because she wasn’t blessed with a good “parent gacha.” Even if the parents don’t get along, the child can still become happy if they work hard. This kind of phrasing is basically a form of dissing, but if the person saying it doesn’t realize that, it’s incredibly insensitive. Rather than dissing, I’d call it a “curse.” It works on the subconscious, plants certain assumptions—or maybe plants the seeds of despair. The person asking the question is a monster lurking in the papa-katsu dungeon. If both parents are abusive and neglectful while pretending to be a happy couple, that’s going to be hard on the child too. Still, some children do seem to grow up okay. From a child’s perspective, you’ll feel indebted to your parents simply because they gave birth to you, no matter what. So maybe people should just stop overthinking it and have children impulsively by finishing inside. Society will probably tear them apart for it, but a child can never truly hate their parents from the bottom of their heart. That would mean denying themselves. And you could even say that being unable to truly hate their parents is a child’s greatest misfortune. Though that’s just playing with words. Rather than asking whether you love the woman, maybe you should decide based on whether you think you could love the child you had with her. Wanting to finish inside her and get her pregnant is just instinct. It isn’t love for her or love for the child.

I have a little. As a form of love, please give me ¥100 million upfront for each child.

There isn’t one. Did you really want to write a poem badly enough to disguise it as a question?