Because children are a status symbol to them. In domination cultures, such as colonial capitalist white supremacist patriarchy, males constantly feel vulnerable because they are always jockeying for position in the hierarchy.

Having lots of kids, such as Elon musk, it’s a sign of his animal virulence. Actually loving the children and raising them, well that is ‘women’s work’.

And the women in those relationships have been conditioned to depend on a benevolent patriarch to protect them from more predatory ones. And even single mothers who have adopted that patriarchal mindset, will attempt to instill it in there children, because it’s what they believe is the nature of the world and how they best believe that they can help their children to survive.

Assuming, that there’s not sadism. Which can certainly come from both the male or the female parent in a patriarchal society.

And I learned most of that from bell hooks. The will to change goes into all of this extensively.