This is very true. There have been some surveys of women who have not had children & many express a deep sadness. But it is also common to hear women who have devoted lives to children mourn the other paths they did not take. 'What else could I have been?'https://twitter.com/clakklaa/status/957556348748812288 …
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We must push back against any attempts to mandate which views about gender can and cannot be expressed in the public sphere - whether it's fears that women are being affected by slim models doing dishes or feminists criticising motherhood. Back off. We can cope.
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I will criticise traditional gender roles and blank slatism because they are both ideologically-motivated nonsense & annoying. We are overlapping populations. I'll still defend your right to believe & express annoying nonsense.
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I think the best thing we can do to limit the extent to which people feel constrained by social expectations is not to try to ban the ones we don't like but support those who defy them and do their own thing anyway. Normalise individuality, not a particular take on gender.
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I think the people who want to “destroy gender norms” rather than just give maximum freedom to individuals despite those norms, tend to just hate western society in general for some reason.

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This is often true but not always.
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. I took satisfaction to mean "fulfills a need". Kids are at least one of the most important sources of satisfaction. Just ask someone who can't have kids. Careers, hobbies etc don't compensate.