The thing is ... trying to keep things objective and philosophical ... is that there’s no other way the subject person could exist. One’s parents didn’t have the choice to have that child at an earlier age. If they did have children earlier in life, those children are different people from any children born later in life. If they didn’t have children earlier, any they did have would still have been different people from the one who wanted younger parents.
So the person is really positing his own non-existence as being better that being the person he is.
I see what you’re saying, and it’s an interesting philosophical point.
Still, all I know is that they left me early, and I miss them. No boy or man was ever good enough for me, as far as my dad was concerned, UNTIL my husband came along. They bonded right away. Then, nine months after our wedding, my father was gone. Even now, eighteen years later, it upsets me to talk about it. My mother was absolutely destroyed, and she never got over his death. She made it another five years, and then she, too, was gone.
That’s my personal experience with the subject at hand...that’s what I know. I wouldn’t try to dissuade another couple from having children later in life. But am I happy with the way it turned out for my parents and me? No. Not at all.
But my situation-—and how I feel-—doesn’t reflect on yours, so you shouldn’t be bothered.