Kaada jeega gribeet dzemdeet beernus, ja vinji taapat izaugs un vinjiem tevi nevajadzees. You're a host and a slave for a couple decades, and then you're just that same old lonesome you.
There is no gratification in having kids. Their suffering hurts even more than your own. Although it is easier to die when one has given up things and having kids means giving up a lots of things.
Well, there is loads of issues as you must know too well.
But strangely enough there *is* a sense of gratification for me personally. Having someone "of my own" who will hopefully outlive me, feels like having a stab at a sort of immortality for some reason.