A mere thought I had was about pregnancies themselves, having children and therein raising the children.
A lot of people I know tend to be quite enraged at their children due to their childish antics, often resulting in high stress and no social time, and sometimes a total destruction of their own self such as suicide, drug abuse or alcoholism.

So the real question is, do you gain some manner of enlightenment off of having a child, raising the child and subsequently being a parent? Do you learn some secrets of life, or perhaps understand more about the nature of reality?

Or is it just a path of self-destruction?