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Safety in numbers. I'd raise the child as a means of increasing my chances of survival.
Consider pooling labour resources (division of labour with regard to shelter, fishing, gathering, etc.) and the benefit of protecting one another come sickness, injury, or attacks from wild animals.
I would view the child as a long-term asset with a short-term challenge.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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