And the cost of educating children/and or college is ovewhelming.
However, with that said, I want lots of kids.
I am probably getting married next summer (basically unofficially engaged until we get through pre-engagement counseling), and frankly, I don't want kids for awhile. We both want to wait a bit. I personally would like to wait until I am 30, six years away. While I think having kids would be a rewarding experience, we won't have the money to have them immediately.
I am also a bit selfish. I want some years to be just us. I don't want kids immediately since I want to enjoy my wife and I bein the only ons in the house for the first couple years. I mean, for crying out loud, once we have kids, that is basically a 20-year commitment. Heavens, by the time the kids would be gone, I would be 50!!
That is almost enough to make me want NO kids whatsoever. But, the joy that comes from seeing them grow up has to be worth losing all that time to yourself.