This is another story giving us a clear example of epimetheic thinking: "I am paralysed, I cannot live a normal life; I know for sure that if we have a baby s/he will help keep the marriage together. I am certain I cannot take care of a child as I should and s/he deserves but, what the hell! I want, I need a baybee" :bayybee. Yes, as they say, ignorance is bliss (stupid and ignorant bliss, but, anyway). After the little one is born then, oh, surprise! They do not even know how to start coping with their new situation, and everything is so difficult and devastating and nobody helps and they did not know, "if someone had just told me it was like THIS!..." :bawl
There is something I do not get about mankind and that creates difficulties that do not exist anywhere else. Nature, being wise and ruthless at the same time, has been selecting genes for as long as life has existed, allowing the best and most adapted to survive and eliminating the others from the gene pool. But that is not good enough for humans, so we end up with women with six children having another eight (because they NEED to connect to someone) or people well below the optimum standard of health reproducing and knowing they will not be able to take care of their children, among others.
Finally, we return once more to the wonderful chapter of "Great Expectations" where these people put on their offspring shoulders such an amount of responsibility: "You will become a brilliant doctor who will find a cure for mummy's illness"
that when they grow older and this does not happen both parents and children become hateful and embittered, mix that with some drops of martyrdom and enjoy the result.