well, okay, less creeping and more stomping in in jack boots and lobbing molotov cocktails about the place.

You do occasionally run into stories where lack of children is a problem because the race is dying out, but it's almost always framed in a "we only need them around because that's the only way to get more adults" way, rather than any sort of actual love/fondness of children for who and what they are themselves.

Now I am feeling motivated to write a story full of people with kids underfoot, just because.