My brother and his wife never had kids, always said that neither of them wanted any, they were always too busy with their careers and hobbies. However now that both have recently hit the big 60, it has hit them that they aren’t going to live forever, they will die and leave their possession to a distant relative they hardly know. For the first time ever I recently heard by brother say he regrets that they never had kids...
My house in California, the house in Montana and the savings are all going to dog rescues the specialize in American Bulldogs and/or pitties. That an a hundred large or so for the Macaw.
We have no crumb crunchers but a couple of nieces and a nephew.
Neither of us are parental material.