[enrichyourlife]

> It's rather that despite all those sacrifices, kids enrich your life, and they allow tremendous opportunity for self-growth and a host of experiences that are hard to replicate otherwise.

This is the reason why most people have kids. This doesn't entirely contradicts the parent post though: People are having kids for their self benefits.

[Goronmon]

That post said the main reasons that people have kids are "They don't want to "die alone". They want to show that they can afford it."

Which are entirely different reasons than the parent poster gave.

This whole meta discussion of whether it's done for "selfish" reasons is largely not valuable, as every decision one makes in their life can be framed as being entirely selfish.