Very true--and Charlie and Larry on the show don't only work on scientific concepts that "normal" people might not know about, but they save lives by applying these principles to crimes. It is a responsibility--if someone feels they have the ability to save another person there's even more reason to let the leaky fawcett slide at home.

Also as I said below, it seems taken for granted that the human impulse to have a family is automatically considered more important than the impulse to make some sort of mark another way. So if Larry has had a brilliant career but didn't have the children he wanted, that's sad. If the boys' mother raised a family but gave up the music she wanted to compose, that's not sad, that's just the kind of choices we make in life.