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Keep in mind that every thug, criminal and lowlife parasite alive also had a mother and a father. Did those "contributions to society" help more than if they had not been born? Simply making babies is not enough, IMHO, to count as a contribution to society. Those that chose not to procreate and simply let those children run wild have also perhaps contributed to society.
From the viewpoint of raising healthy, well-adjusted children simply Making Babies, agreed, is not enough. Children need parents, and ideally they need an actively involved mother and father (there's a reason social scientists call that "the gold standard"). That fact does not change the reality, however, that child-raising is an intensively time and resource consuming act.