Emotional maturity is important, but there's also financial readiness. People don't have extended families and villages to be nannies-on-demand anymore, so old

Emotional maturity is important, but there's also financial readiness. People don't have extended families and villages to be nannies-on-demand anymore, so older parents have a lot more financial resources to raise kids and more likely to give the kid a comfortable life. Especially when housing prices have gone up much faster than salaries in the past 30 years, and that is reflected not only in one's own mortgage/rent but also that you have to indirectly pay the rent increases of every Chipotle worker you interact with.