Certainly a new way of looking at things there, Ian. The ones who attain to eldership are in a particularly delicate position if they do have children. They have to go thru out life with thier lives under the microscope of the congo. Then they have to be unwitting combatants ( The Elders ) in the excercise of child rearing. So many examples of lives lost to "The World" as the children of elders who've become witnesses at too young an age, wind up leaving the truth.
They can't handle societal pressure from the outside world, become ingrossed in thier often chaotic course of "The Bloom of Youth", hormones, emotional onslaughts of ups and downs. Before you know it, (usually between the ages of 13 to17) you've got a runaway train, full of anger and absolutely no true understanding of what the real world is like. You see little Johnny, son of Brother so and so, the P.O. go down in a blaze of glory as he's extracted from the Kingdom Hall, and is transplanted into the loving arms of the world. It will surely be a lot easier to be an Elder in the Kingdom Hall, W/O children, than with. They become like albatrosses around thier necks.