Who cares. Would have been better if you had no children. What benefit is there to having one anyways?
The benefit to having a child is that the human body is configured to make you extremely happy, as reward continuation of the species. Whilst I have never really read much proof on this, this has to be prevalent in the animal kingdom, too (the reward factor - hard to say because you don't see animals quite so drunk on the whole experience like you do in humans).
This effect is more so in women - so it really depends which woman you happen to be aligned with.
I know a female who is so selfish, she has almost no concept of other people's desires and they barely affect her own agenda.
Now, someone might say the one redeeming fact about her is that she gives a great deal of her energy to her child. Which might seem at face value to be selfless - but I think it's much more characteristically accurate to point out that she is still the same selfish person, riding a high that her body continues to reward her with, for maintaining the environment for her child.
At the end of the day, we're all basically chasing happiness - which is obviously the result of the brain chemistry. So to answer your question TA, the benefit is that it is a very cheaty vector (in that it doesn't really actually employ much learned talent to achieve) to natural, brain induced drug happiness.
