At this point in my life, whether or not I would be interested in eventually having children comes down to one thing- who would I be spending the rest of my life with? The incredibly sad reality is that I'm in my early 20s and can count on one hand the amount of times I've ever had feelings for another person. More important to this thread is the fact that stuff- just, stuff in general- is only getting more expensive over time, and as someone who already has a severe case of what I call "price anxiety", the last thing I want or need to worry about is how I can sustainably care for multiple people at a time. My point I'm trying to make here is that, from the outside looking in, relationships already look way too expensive and uncertain for my liking, so by extension, having a spouse and children sounds like borderline torture to me.
All of this being said, I do have a long-term plan in mind to eventually put myself out there, but for the purpose of this thread I'd be lying if I said I haven't considered the possibility of being an adoptive single parent. I would like to consider single parenthood as a last resort option for the sake of the child (or children)'s well-being and their own growing up, however. Preferably any children I have, adopted or not, would be able to have what some might consider "the full, positive childhood experience".
I will also take this moment to state that I am the uncle of an eight-month old child at the time of typing this. However, I feel I am in no place to tell the baby's parents how they should raise their own child, and as such I won't be posting about that here. (The parents are on good terms, so no need to worry about that.)
