On the one hand, you do you. Also, others do what they do. Everyone has their own circumstances. For me, your "look beyond preprogrammed brain chemistry" comme

On the one hand, you do you. Also, others do what they do. Everyone has their own circumstances. For me, your "look beyond preprogrammed brain chemistry" comment smacked of elitism. As though people with kids are somehow bound by rules you have transcended. Seems arrogant to assume the reasons others do what they do and boil it down to something as trite as that. Will I say that my kid is "the best thing in my life" on my deathbed? Maybe. Is my kid worth it to me in a purely selfish personal happiness sense? Right now, I would do it again no question.