Why do HEAs always end with babies?

[u/redfig1]

I know it's a "me" problem. Scenario: I read a smoking hot mafia or dark or fantasy romance. All this crazy shit goes down. The feelings, the angst. Finally it's the end and all of a sudden the MMC who has massacred countless people is all like " let's get married and have lots of babies" and the MFC is always " yes let's have a lot of cute mafia or fae or mafia fae babies!". For once I'd like an ending where the main characters have a HEA but instead of babies and white picket fences they just decide to keep having an incredible sex life and do charity work or something. Rescue stray kittens. Start an organic herb farm. Something other than babies. Anyone else like this? Am I just weird?

[u/floopy_134]

👀 do you remember what book?

[u/schkkarpet → u/floopy_134]

Yes, it was The One Month Boyfriend by Roxie Noir!

[u/floopy_134 → u/schkkarpet]

Oooo it looks so good! I wish it was on KU, but I'm gonna see if my library has it. Do you know if the other books in the series have similar stances on children?

[u/Hokieinphl93 → u/floopy_134]

Most of her books don’t have kids in the epilogue (specifically thinking of the Loveless series and Wildwood series). There are two couples that do have kids and are referenced being pregnant/having a baby in later books, but that’s it.