I don't know if this is the whole reason -- or if this speaks for anybody else -- but my reason for having a child was, in part, philosophical. So far as I can tell, I have this one life. And it seems to me that fatherhood has been a large part of the human experience since forever (and figures to continue to be, going forward). I wanted to have that experience, as a means of fully investigating what it means to be human, in the small time I have to do so. I wanted to see childhood from the other end.
And by being a father, it has given me insight into my own upbringing, into my parents and the choices that they made, and into what other people around the world routinely experience. Being a father, furthermore, has pushed me to evaluate and develop myself in ways I had not even considered previously. It has provoked me to be more reflective than ever before. It has made me a better person (mostly).
It is often crushingly hard, being a parent -- for me, at least -- and I would not recommend it to everyone. But if I could, I would not choose otherwise for myself.
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