I started to reply to this on Mike's website, but there was just too much to say. Check out this link where I, a parent, go through the same point-by-point competition:
"So for those keeping score, Mike went 6-1-1 (startup-baby-draw), while I went 2-4-2. I guess that our bias is expressed by the choices we have made to get where we are. I think it's easy to pick the startup because the experiences can be more easily related to someone else, while parenting sounds like a whole lot of work and you have to take someone else's word that "Babies make you happy." But the important lesson is to find something that makes you happy and feed it."
http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/2007/11/09/re-29-years-old-...
"So for those keeping score, Mike went 6-1-1 (startup-baby-draw), while I went 2-4-2. I guess that our bias is expressed by the choices we have made to get where we are. I think it's easy to pick the startup because the experiences can be more easily related to someone else, while parenting sounds like a whole lot of work and you have to take someone else's word that "Babies make you happy." But the important lesson is to find something that makes you happy and feed it."