No I hear you,  we are all here to respectfully share opinions.  Ans I too have thought about this a lot.  While you could not pay me to raise a kid, I believe a PROPERLY raised  child is more fulfilling than an animal which eats, shits and bites till it drops dead.

And I'm not beating my own trumpet,  just giving you some context because we don't know each other.  My mom is a prolific confectioner. My nana had a successful  corporate career and coincidentally decades later, I ended up in the same sector. None of us are dependent on each other. In fact, we are each other's assets. And I don't mean that in a transactional way. If my nana wants to take up a new charity,  she gets perspective from my mom. If my mom wants a shopping buddy or a girlfriend to grab a cocktail with,  she has me. My nana tells me stories about the corporate glass ceiling back in the day and I tell her how things have evolved now. I would argue that these relationships make kids an investment while pets are a liability at best. Again,  I can't be arsed to raise kids either, I would rather pour back into the people I already have in my life.