I said this upthread, but at the risk of being repetitive: the possibility of adoption addresses many of those concerns. There are tradeoffs (nontraditional fa

I said this upthread, but at the risk of being repetitive: the possibility of adoption addresses many of those concerns. There are tradeoffs (nontraditional family dynamics with kids being raised by older parents, hassles with the adoption system itself, etc.), but a) you could consider those tradeoffs to be in exchange for the benefit of spending the first parts of your life doing other things, and b) the benefits to adopted kids are often truly huge.