They are trophies. Recently, Madonna was asked by an interviewer why she wanted to have a second child. She will no doubt pamper her children in the extreme, and they will suffer for nothing material. Madonna does not merely sing, act and strip naked. I learned in my Catholic upbringing, that life is created when a man and women unite in love, in the union of marriage.
Children are the expression of a couple's love.
It's an old and a ridiculed concept that is simple and even erotic in its sanity, if one pauses and reflects on the idea long enough. Single motherhood is nothing to glamorize, trivialize or take lightly. It is a big sacrifice. It means working twice as hard to support a child. It means enlisting older grandparents, busy aunts and uncles, friends and family to help.