No, kids are certainly not just expensive pets! You do not give birth to your pets for a start! More importantly children develop into a fully grown person with their own personality, dreams, aspirations and ideas and that, my anonymous friend, is priceless!
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.