do not listen to what the average person thinks

most are NPC's and shouldn't be taken srsly

society/average people have this laid out plan of what YOUR life should be like by X age, disregard all of that srs

- Wife is in early 20's and a possible virgininexperienced in life with no wisdom or concept of finances
- Wife is at her physical peaknot all women peak at 20 in looks
- Wife will provide the healthiest childrennot necessarily true, plenty of 20 year olds aren't healthy
- Have lots of energy to work and raise the kidsdue to lack of age, you're likely really inefficient in life with no experience to get things done or multi-task or know how to properly do anything
- Kids will be well into their middle age once you pass awayok
- Grow up old with your wifecan do this either way


40's:

- Wife is at least in her 30's and probably divorcedmine isn't divorced, nothing wrong with a woman in her 30s
- Wife has had dozens of dink with lots of baggagemine doesn't
- Wifes looks are fading awayeveryone's does and plenty of women peak in their late 20s and 30s, pudgy cute girls can turn into top tier lean women
- Wife will have trouble conceiving because of her agewomen have kids into their 40s or you can have a surrogate
- High chance of children turning out autistic due to old parentsagain surrogate
- No energy to work full time and raise a toddleragain more efficient at whatever you do so less energy is required and since you're not slaving away at your job with higher income you can hire people to clean your house or babysit often including parents that are reitred
- You will die from old age when your children are still pretty youngwhy does this matter?

There's pros and cons to both. People look at my age and think I need to get started. I have no problem having kids at like 42 and they graduate high school at 60. I'll be 64 after college, may see their wedding day just in time for me to wither away. It's possible to spend time with grand kids at 70ish too. Perfect time to spoil them.

Let's be srs, I'd be dead broke right now if I had not gotten my chit together in my late 20s due to not having kids and having the time to dedicate to a career. Now I have way more money, which means I'll have plenty of space to raise my kids in a proper home and can afford to give them a good education that I never had until my late 20s. I don't regret it at all. I do wish I had found someone in my early 30s, but that's not how it worked out. My gf is only 33, same age my mom had me. And who's to say that works out. And at 42 I can get another 33 year old.