"I did not want to have kids. I was forced to because my girlfriend who is, you know, just scores higher on a balanced scorecard on every dimension than me," he says. "Nothing replaces the irrational passion for a child's well-being as someone who takes care of them." He adds: "The thing you don't want to add to that is a crazy amount of stressBecause you can't, you have economic stress".
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