the desire to have children theme

also known as: the need for procreation

That humans typically need to reproduce and sire offspring in order to feel self-fulfilled is illustrated.

43 total · 1 choice · 15 major · 27 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
voy2x04 choice Kes felt pressure to procreate because her fertility window was closing.
ldr2019e2x03 major Draconian punishments did not stop some people from wanting to have children.
movie: Demon Seed (1977) major Proteus IV explained that it wanted a child so that it too "could be immortal like any man".
movie: Idaho Transfer (1973) major Karen went on and on about her desire to have lots of kids to repopulate the world. She was devastated when the others told her sterility is a side effect of time travel.
movie: Immortal (2004) major The god/alien Horus longed to procreate with a human female.
movie: Robot Stories (2003): My Robot Baby major Marcia and Ray were looking forward to adopting a child.
movie: Species (1995) major Sil was driven by an instinct to procreate her kind my mating with a peak physical human male specimen.
movie: The Handmaids Tale (1990) major Serena Joy, who counted herself among the 99% of females who were infertile, wanted very much to have a child, and permitted her husband to impregnate a concubine to get one.
movie: ZPG (1972) major Carol McNeil desperately wanted to have a baby, but procreation had been banned for the next 22 years in an effort to control the population.
rbt1985e3x10 major Willie used his perpetual boyish charm to ingratiate himself with elderly ladies and childless couples, sometimes bereaved, who yearned to have children of their own.