Agreed. As a European immigrant, I see what the inability to reconcile job and kids leads to - a fertility rate of 1.4, well below replacement level.
The fertility rate is dropping and below replacement levels in most of europe too, even in places with generous leave policies. So I'm not sure it makes much of a difference.
If this is a problem I guess it comes down to the following questions:
What should the global population be?
What is the sustainable resource extraction rate for this planet? What is it on a per capita basis? We always hear the first world is taking more than their fair share of resources.
Would we rather have nine billion people at a low consumption rate or one billion people at a high consumption rate? I would prefer less people at a higher more luxurious consumption rate. Are low wages a sign that on a per capita basis most of us are not worth the planetary resource extraction it takes to provide a decent life?