I do not understand the question. You aren't suggesting being a successful parent doesn't produce anything of value are you? Or are you suggesting that my enjoyment of my children and the pleasure of seeing them develop and enjoy their lives is not a real value? Or maybe you are suggesting that now they are grown productive citizens, raising their own families and producing more decent self-sufficient productive citizens has no practical value?
If this is what you are suggesting, I guess I can't answer the question.
Hank
It was your comments on materialism that confused me ... they didn't quite jibe with your admirable take on your kids.
I was thinking today that any trial attorney worth his salt should take a page from the "non-judgmental latest data" with which our government and their interlock of Experts and Consultants and Advocacy Groups inundates us.
Any parents claiming pain and suffering for the death of their unborn child and able to put a price on that should be confronted with the real economic liability -- much less Pain and Suffering -- that each child poses.
There's no guarantee whatsoever a child's going to repay his parents' economic investment in him. Even a cursory glance at the child support figures for which men with no Choice are tracked like dogs and imprisoned, even, suggests that monetary damages for the loss of a child are ludicrous at best.