No no, you see, the DINKs got it all figured out.
- Work hard in your 20s and 30s
- Get a house
- Build a nest egg
- Get your shit together
- Have an amazing sex life while you've still got ample supply of your gender's hormones, and total privacy.
- Then in the late 30s, pick up a pre-owned child that some other parents couldn't afford anymore.
If you're okay with one that's a couple years old, you can skip all the pregnancy, child birth, infancy, bed training, sleep regressions, the toilet training, etc, and at least get one that's already partially verbal (and fully mobile).
Yeah, you don't get a warranty, but really neither did the original owner.
Biggest downside is that you wind up dealing with trauma/neglect/abuse that may have impacted them. You don't always get full service history or maintenance records, and they may not even show any signs of a problem for several years.
But that can happen to anyone.
