Kids are a real issue, because age just sneaks up on you. By the time a woman starts hitting her mid to late 30s, it starts getting very hard to have children.

Kids are a real issue, because age just sneaks up on you. By the time a woman starts hitting her mid to late 30s, it starts getting very hard to have children. And you are in a constant race against menopause, made even more stressful if you want to have multiple children. My wife and I got very lucky on this front, but nobody in their right mind should ever plan to start anywhere near this age. And the worst part is that we both turned out to love having children which is kind of ironic because neither of us are especially fond of kids, at least other peoples' kids I guess. We'd probably have 5+ if we'd started earlier, but the chance of that happening now are near zero. I regret almost nothing in my life, except for not having children earlier, and the only reason that didn't happen is because I wasn't really aware that sometime in your mid 20s we all apparently just step into a time machine.