39, married, one daughter age 5 months. Those who say late parenting is ****e/ stupid/ can't understand it can get it round you. There's no way I would have had kids in my twenties, I knew I was far too irresponsible and a liability to myself, never mind anyone else. I've had a very reckless, but enormously enjoyable life to date, with huge highs and lows. My view is that I am a lot wiser now for it, and my daughter will benefit more from me as I am than as I was. I also earn around four times as much money, have a decent quality of life and am generally in a better position to be a parent. My mrs is a year older than me, been together nearly ten years, and we may have had kids three years ago at the earliest, but wouldn't change anything in the way we have done it. We have been shaped by choices rather than events, and to my mind that is more preferable.
[video=youtube;C6ZDsUGiGqM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6ZDsUGiGqM[/video] Play this music whilst reading about everyones sad lives
That takes me back...to probably the most enjoyable English O Level lesson when we got to watch Romeo and Juliet: please log in to view this image