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No no, you see, the DINKs got it all figured out.
If you're okay with one that's a couple years old, you can skip all the pregnancy, child birth, infancy, bed training, sleep regressions, the toilet training, etc, and at least get one that's already partially verbal (and fully mobile).
Yeah, you don't get a warranty, but really neither did the original owner.
Biggest downside is that you wind up dealing with trauma/neglect/abuse that may have impacted them. You don't always get full service history or maintenance records, and they may not even show any signs of a problem for several years.
But that can happen to anyone.
Lemon laws when
That's not dink though. Why would you fuck it up by adopting?
Stay childfree for life!
It's the best of both worlds...DINKing through early career, getting set up, and getting a kid once established and settled in a career. Bonus points for not having to deal with all the baby stuff and still getting the most fun years (I'd say like 2.5 through puberty), and not pausing career development for establishing a family (which especially handicaps mothers)
Our bodies rush us into wanting to have kids young. But our society is making that increasingly difficult.
Say what you will about kids, I can understand an individual not wanting a kid. That's a personal choice.
But the recent trend in rapidly declining birthrates? That's a societal level issue.
Reproducing is literally the purpose of life. That's all. You gotta be fucking up the balance real bad to turn that off for a significant chunk of the population.