Having kids makes your life better

I truly believe you’ll automatically live a better life once you have kids. People say not everybody should have kids, but I believe the contrary. Sure, there are always a few bad apples who, yes, preferably shouldn’t have kids at all. But I think for the majority of people, life automatically improves once they have kids.

A parent in a grey jacket and green cap walks hand in hand with a toddler in a red hat across a ploughed field toward a tree on an overcast autumn day.

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash.

That’s because they finally take on the responsibility of caring for somebody other than themselves, and truly caring for them. Once that responsibility is on you, I believe most parents will act on it correctly. They’ll improve their lives because they don’t want their kids to have it worse than they did. I believe that’s how evolution and generational progress work in this world.

There’s no greater calling in life than making sure the future is better off than the world you leave behind.