Wow, that is a very personal and loaded question. Ann Landers did a survey decades ago and asked people with kids if they had to do it again would they have have their kids and surprisingly the majority said, no. I would not. I wouldn't take billion dollars for my kids, but I wouldn't do it again.
You are right, having kids is a crap shoot. You don't know how they are going to turn out. You can raise them right and they still will turn out wrong. You just never know. And with the crap facing them nowadays. It is chancy. Mine are in their mid thirties. Love my grandkids, but I fear for them.
If you can find your satisfaction in channeling all your love into furkids and rescues, more power to you. They won't step on your heart, disappoint you, wind up in jail, divorced etc...
It is a personal decision and yours alone to make. Don't let anyone else make it for you.
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