Had my one and only child at 21 (wife is 10 years older than I am, mind), never once regretted it and my career never suffered (went from a $12/hr tech support

Had my one and only child at 21 (wife is 10 years older than I am, mind), never once regretted it and my career never suffered (went from a $12/hr tech support job to being a decently paid DevOps engineer over a 4-year time span following our daughters birth). Am I on a more extreme end of the spectrum? Absolutely, and I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone; but I’m happy with the choice I made.