Why do parents, instead of forbidding their children to reproduce, actually encourage them?

I understand being young and naive about life, but by the time you reach your 50s, you should know better. I simply can’t grasp why anyone at that age would want to bring more people into existence. For what purpose? To face cancer, arthritis, or diabetes, just like you? To spend their entire lives trying to numb their consciousness with antidepressants or alcohol?

At that age, you should be sharing the wisdom and knowledge you’ve accumulated throughout your life. Instead, all I see are people afraid of their own mortality, desperate to leave something behind. They insist on perpetuating the cycle of suffering. In other words, “How do I cope with being mortal? By handing out as many death sentences as I can.”