Children bringing you meaning doesn’t justify bringing them into existence (procreation).

I have heard many a people try justify to me that their experience of having children transformed their life, filling it with meaning.

However, this hardly seems like a sufficient justification.

Imagine I woke somebody from an endless sleep and took them to pseudo-Scouts. I was their Warden now, and until they learned the ropes, they were under my duty. I gained great joy and pleasure watching them be a scout. They suffered a lot though, quite a few broken bones and cuts, were never quite talented enough, and eventually were assigned a rubbish position in the adult scout division, maintaining our local base-camp. However, I was more fulfilled than before.

This hardly seems like a sufficient justification for me to wake them up and force them to be a scout, suffer or succeed.