What's the point in having children?

[SvennoJ]

VAMatt said:

SvennoJ said:

One of the draw backs in having children 'late' in life. We were in out thirties when the first was born.

I'm 38 and the wife is 39, and we're on our first (likely only) child.

I had a friend several years ago that had her first child at 40.  She specifically told me not to wait that long, as it's a lot harder to handle all the stuff that goes along with a kid when you're older.  Clearly, I didn't listen, and I'll have to learn the hard way.  

That, and you'll be 60 by the time they move out, if you're lucky lol. Hopefully my kids don't wait that long so we can still enjoy grand children. Time for us to pressure our children into having kids! Atm it's all that newfangled school math that's stumping us. Math was very different when we were kids.