No question about it, and that has never been questioned. But it was rather telling that you do not realize that, throughout history and across cultures, one typically did all that AND had offspring. A successful deviation from easy to difficult is a justifiable source of pride, wouldn't you say? But the converse is not true. If you, as many others in modern Western society, reduce your accomplishments -- from personal/professional AND having offspring to personal/professional only --- whence the feeling of pride? As I said earlier, one can fall down or remain in a natural state without effort.
Nevertheless, I DO NOT need a wife and rug rats to PROVE anything.
And that is the most telling part --- that you confuse the ability to love, share and give life with proving something.
Very sad.
Yeah. Just look at that slacker Issac Newton.
What is the point of having offspring? Any moron can do that. It certainly should not be a point of pride.
Just because having children gratifies some personal desire on your part does not mean that everyone else needs the same kind of gratification. Nor does it contribute in a meaningful sense to the well-being of the country. Doing a job well in the abstract is worth what it is worth, the same as any other.
Having offspring, in of itself, is nothing to be proud of. Anything that a couple of drunken 16 year-olds can accomplish isn't something that inherently creates pride.