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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you have never had a child and are still fairly young. Am I right? Because having a kid at any age is absolutely a big deal. Having one at 37 would be even worse.
A bit of powerleveling but this is to prove my point. I got married at age 20 and we were pregnant 3 months later. We had full time jobs. When the baby came our routines changed forever. Kiss your sleep goodbye, your "me" time, your "staycations" and chill together moments all gone except for the rare times you get a sitter. It's like adding a part time job to both of you and the mental and physical stress can get overwhelming at times.
It eases up a bit when they get old enough to go to school and fend for themselves on a lot of things. But then you have picking them up and dropping them off at school, any sports they pick up, birthday parties, homework, etc. They almost always require attention.
Don't even get me started on the teenage years. Phil would be in his 50s, no way he wouldn't put a bullet in his head if he even lasts this long.
I'm talking about genetics, homie, not one's personal ability to raise a child and the mental toll it takes on someone. Why was I talking about those things? Because people keep bringing up their age and birth defects and that sort of shit. I didn't say a goddamned thing about their actual capacity to raise a child, their schedules, their mental well-being -- none of that shit.
There's a whole range of studies out there, but rough consensus is that a man fathering a child before 45 and a woman mothering it before 35 has a pretty minimized risk of additional birth defects or complications. There's a whole slew of other health and genetic issues that can come into play, but their age is fine.
This is like the third time in as many days that people have taken something I've said and applied it to an adjacent argument I didn't even come close to touching contextually.