[a_c]

It is the simple things that is the hardest. If anything, having children revealed many of the mentioned. To me, having children is enlightenment

[tirant]

I fully agree. It gives also a sense of impact in the world that might span over centuries or even longer.

Sometimes I joke about the simple concept that we are all the descendants of a chain of ascendants that manage to successfully reproduce and have children without interruption, through all the evolutionary stages, from homo sapiens to hominids, monkeys, mammals until reaching the first life organisms. And I am not going to be the one stopping that long evolutionary chain ;)

[ErigmolCt]

There's something about raising kids that strips away all the fluff and forces you to confront the core of who you are

[silexia]

Having children is the literal purpose of all life forms. Birth control is the worst thing that humanity has invented.

[grugagag]

Birth control is not to not have children but to control when you have children.

[layer8]

You are basically saying that the purpose of all life forms is to create further life forms, whose purpose then is again the same. In other words, the purpose is eating its own tail. In my mind, this circularity disqualifies it from being a meaningful purpose.