Don't wait to have children!

The New Republic has a piece up, How Older Parenthood Will Upend American Society, which won't have surprising data for readers of this weblog. But it's nice to see this sort of thing go "mainstream." My daughter was born when her parents were in their mid-30s, so I know all the statistics. They aren't good bed-time reading (she's healthy and robust so far!). If I had to do it over again I definitely wouldn't have waited this long. After becoming a father it brought home to me that waiting was one of the worst decisions of my life. Why postpone something this incredible for the more far more prosaic pleasures of an extended adolescence? Granted, I'm not sure that I would have been the best father at 25, but I don't think there's much I can say in reply to the argument that I should have become a father by ...