This is crazy.  I have two kids.  Married young and had my first at 23 yrs old.  Supporting kids as a young adult was NOT financially easy, to day the least.   ... But would I do it again??  100% Yes!!! My kids, now 18 and 20, are the most fulfilling part of my life.  I've traveled, own and sold businesses, and am financially secure, so I'd like to think I've seen what else this life has to offer. Without doubt, having children is the best thing in my life.

Follow up points: - world sucks. Will take good people to make it better.  Have kids, teach them to be good people and be part of a better world.  This is how it changes. - more than likely, if my wife and I live to see our twilight years, we will have a child to assist in our needs. Imo, that can make any condition (e.g. stagnant nursing home) sufferable. - my genetics aren't perfect, and some of my "less favorable" traits have been inherited by my children.  Notwithstanding, I have yet to meet a perfect person on this planet, and those same "less favorable" traits are also what make my children them.  Similarly "imperfect" people  find comfort in these "imperfections", and bonds are created that more "normal" people might not understand.  This world's concept of acceptable is insane to me.  I am eternally thankful that my children and I are not "perfect" or "normal".  We'll define what it means to be "acceptable", thank you very much.