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 Nothing makes you grow up and mature like having to care for and provide for another human. A human that you helped create. 
 Employment is liberating, but I don’t work for ifcoiners 
 Love is defined by selfless sacrifices that benefit the loved. Parenting isn't the only way to learn and increase the capacity to love, but it's the most available/common one God gave us. The incentive schemes all fail because they don't address the root problem that society no longer seeing value or reward found through sacrifice or suffering offered on behalf of others. My 3 daughters require more than I knew I was capable of but return so much more. Worth it even when it doesn't like when we  lost our first child. 
 Sidebar, but one of the funniest terms I’ve heard for kids is “sex receipts.”

Anyway, highly recommend. 
 Chidren seem to be mere fodder and leverage by courts and super states as levers and controls over a strong man with which they can bind. For the best interests of the children of course.