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What is the significance of having children?

If your economy is strong enough and you don't need children to help you support your old age, what is the significance of having children?

new life

Besides satisfying social significance, making blood for the society, and meeting personal needs, raising children to prevent old age, the most valuable thing about childbirth is that it is a new life. Through two people who love each other, we came into this world. We looked at this new life and took care of this new life, thus broadening our experience.

Harmony between sex and love

The so-called fertility is the combination of sex and love. The traditional concept of marriage in China is that fertility is essential, and it is better to have a boy than a girl. Another traditional idea is that having a child will make their feelings better.

Lack of love

For most people, love is a scarce commodity. True love needs no proof, but true love is so scarce. To this end, we always try to prove ourselves through material things, but those who only have material things are so mentally unbearable.