Why do human beings want to have children?

Question

Answers like we would not be here if everybody thought the same, is in a true sense not appropriate. We are here doesn't mean we are in a bliss. It can be a curse to be born here. Looking for children in one time I can say was a need. It was the time when human race was minority in the world and had a threat from other animals. To protect themselves they probably needed more children. It does not seem to make any sense now. World is bloating with human population. It is not fun either to have children. You cannot presume the child you are gonna get is divine either.
If it is to prove that we are capable of giving birth or are able to create then it is not very good. We have to grow out of it and think much better. I definitely don't want to say that its good to not have children at all. looking at the current population it seems it should be done only in a more wise way. The reasoning that we want our ambitions to be fulfilled by children is unwise.

If we are looking for the things that we could fulfil to be completed by our children, then that is a bigger mistake. If they fail we will suffer more. Is it proper wisdom? If think its a joy that is not true either. It is just an illusion. It all depends on our thinking.
Its not an inbuilt biological desire or urge either. Many of them clearly don't want it. We are not that stupids as animals. Sometimes we just have a lack of wisdom of things. Honestly to me having children is more of wanting to carry your ego forward. Can't we think any better at all? I think it is a good idea to have children with the thought of making good to society. If it is for ego it is just ways of animals. How many ever reasons we comeup with, they sound like a coveruop to our egoistic nature. Isn't that right?

Then what noble cause makes everyone make this decision? Your answers can let me identify if we are just bound by illusion or maya or if there is a true good cause.

Answer 1

Pure instinct.

Answer 2

It is often said that mothers are born and fathers have to be made. This implies that most women want children while men are not so bothered. Life is a learning curve though and my 3 children are very precious esp in later life.
There are many couples who are desperate to have offspring demonstating their biological imperative and there are also a few that persue hedonism until it is too late.
Do you still need to be convinced that you want children, or are you using these answers to write a book? May I assume that by your use of English that like me you live in the affluent West?

Answer 3

Hi, I almost fell asleep reading the question, however human beings want to have children as it is there right to build a family, I have four children and they help to keep me sane and in touch with reality, all children are born equal into this world and it is down to the parenting skills which determine the way they turn out, while the offspring of most animals are left to fend for themselves from an early age, it would be catastrophic if the human race was to adopt this.

Answer 4

Wow. I guess youve never had children before. You dont have children to enhance YOUR life. You have children so that you can enhance theirs. Some have children because their God requests that you be fruitful and multiply.

Your assertion the the world is overpopulated (or boated) is incorrect and absurd. Do you realize that each person currently living on earth, living in a 1500 square foot home, would easily fit in the state of Texas? Children enhance our lives, but we dont have children for that purpose. It just works out that way.

Your question seems more rhetorical than an actual question.

Answer 5

This is not altogether true that the world is not ‘bloating with human population’, or there are way too many people in the world. I would like to think that there is only one person in the world, and all the rest are realisations through that one unique individual. This however does not always mean that to have children is just for the want of that single person trying ‘to carry his ego forward’? It is possible in cases; an entire life can be just an endless sequence of ego trips and having children just an important act adding to this sequence. The universal truth behind essential human desire to have children, however, has some far deeper significance in human life. Life is not an illusion, it is real, and it is realisation of all that is possible.

Life as an act of realisation of what human mind can take into its grasp means all love, truth, justice and beauty realised in a physical, emotional, spiritual and social living. These things otherwise would not mean anything to any person. We find them in loving and living truthfully, justly and finely? Life otherwise is an illusion, a grand abstract reality, and living is an act of realisation of this reality in an actual form.

In philosophical sense, the main threat to realisation of life to its fullest comes from the notion of a terminal life span with an absolute end. We oppose this idea, firstly, by innately believing that we will not die and that life will go on even after our earthly death. And secondly, due to the fact that a proper realisation of life means the concept of an ultimate death is eliminated altogether from existence.

We respond to all threats to our life by thoughts and deeds of an eternal and perpetual life. We raise families and realise our love and longing for an eternal life through posterity. We like to live forever and this is the best way to ensure us of that. We rise generation after generation against the notion of ultimate demise which is our primal concern and fear. We live and love to live forever.

Children are not only a way to defeat death, they are also the way we can find to experience excellence in life. They enable us to realise many highly valuable things in our life the most important of which is human love. There are countless things that we would not know the meaning of otherwise.

Answer 6

It's not just Humans, it's every living thing and some non-living (i.e viruses). It's instinct, the need to self procreate. It has nothing to do with logic. You are showing the trait of too much self awareness, you miss the point of existence.

Answer 7

I have never been that bothered about having and brining up children when our lives and our world is in such a mess. Life can be beautiful, even in thses circumstances, but you don't know what view or what life your children will have. It could be the best life imaginable, but it is likely to be beset by problems.

Answer 8

I am sure that we do it instinctively as many of the answers say,however as we we think of ourselves as Homo sapiens we try hard to justify the action.That is the motivation for making up so many so called valid reasons .The basic thing is to continue the species.

Answer 9

The drive to have children is built in to us. We, like all creatures, have evolved with this instinct. The reason is obvious: all creatures that didn't have this instinct have left no descendants. We are descendants of creatures that did have an instinct to have children.

Answer 10

every human instinctively and sometimes unknowingly seeks a purpose in life.children are the most common answer most humans find to their purpose.off course this is all an illusion just like love, truth, freedom, happiness, god, etc...

Answer 11

1. To fulfill society's picture perfect of an ideal utopia.
2. To fulfill their own self pride and ego.
3. To fulfill your their parents will and desires.
4. To make them happier.
5. To help them let go of their past.
6. To allow them to look into theirselves.
7. To make them more grounded and real as humans.
8. To make them look good and perfect in our society's eyes.