Having kids and being a good parent can be really hard. Parents trying to convince others to have kids might be trying to validate their own choices. We do that

Having kids and being a good parent can be really hard. Parents trying to convince others to have kids might be trying to validate their own choices. We do that all the time for trivial choices like iPhone vs Android, so it's expected that we'll do it even more for irreversible choices like having kids. I wouldn't read too much into it.