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Re:Ask HN: What are the benefits to having children nowadays? by speedgoose on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:34AM (#31988667)
It gives a meaning to your life, if work or saving the world is not doing it.
Re:Ask HN: What are the benefits to having children nowadays? by sforza on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:49AM (#31988866)
So then you choose to procreate to create meaning, and your child grows up, finds meaning lacking, and therefore chooses to procreate...
Re:Ask HN: What are the benefits to having children nowadays? by klyrs on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:57AM (#31988983)
You're mocking everybody who has responded in good faith to your question here. If this behavior is at all typical for you, don't have kids. Leave that to people who are gentle, selfless and kind.
Re:Ask HN: What are the benefits to having children nowadays? by dspillett on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:04AM (#31989084)
The other circle of life!

Society needs a new influx of kids all the time to replace those leaving or those looking after those soon to be leaving, so we have a biological drive to procreate like any other animal. Our use of technology and other knowledge to improve our survival rates has led to an over-population/resource-overuse issue, but that is a different discussion.

Our mental development means that we have other drives which can override the biological signals that tell us to procreate (or lead us to enjoy practise sessions and accidentally do the real thing!), or reduce the risk of unintended procreation, so unlike pretty much all the other life forms on the planet we don't have to.

If you don't want to, don't. Though if you have a partner who wants to, then things get more complicated, perhaps you are (no longer) well suited as partners?

Re:Ask HN: What are the benefits to having children nowadays? by speedgoose on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:25AM (#31989320)
Maybe they will prefer to focus on deploying kubernetes clusters or writing rust software over having a family.