A man never matures until he is a father.
A woman always pursues trivial matters until she becomes a mother.
Being a Father or Mother is a privilege nobody turns down, when faced with it in marriage, unless there is something severely wrong with them.
Birth control sterilizes the reproductive act to the point where having children is the furthest thing from one's mind, for both men and women, and yields opportunity squandered and a sterile life.
There are no riches that compare to a large and loving family.
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Some men and women that become parents never mature or give up the trivialities. Those folks should not have had kids. How much worse is it to find out once those poor babies are here?
People become adults once they get over their selfishness and stupidity and devote their lives to something greater than themselves.
That *tends* to happen when they have kids, but it doesn't happen automatically.
A lazy take in my opinion. Sure, for most people having children is the "maturity trigger", but think for a while and test your hypothesis against all sorts of monastics, saints, political leaders and philosophers throughout history.
Good armchair quarterbacking there. Once you become a father, you'll know what I mean. Not before.
