Whether because of youthful arrogance or plain ignorance, your post brays, uh, bespeaks, a lack of psychological, emotional or intellectual substance. In addition to your cavalier “questions,” you might want to ponder some others, such as: “what will be the psychological effects on a child whose mother ‘chose’ not to get an education or a job paying enough to see her child through school?”; or: “is choosing a disenfranchised life for a child an acceptable or loving choice?” Not to mention a few more personal inquiries, such as “how would I feel if, due to illness or not having found a partner, I were unable to have a child by the age of ’40-45′”? or: “Did I suck at school and/or work and thus meander into making a child so someone could love me no matter how lazy and aimless I might be”? By way of handy information, most people in the developed world aren’t about to die when they are 67, and even children don’t love unconditionally forever. Finally, the purpose of having a child is not to make a “beautiful miniature of yourself” so you can make up for all you didn’t achieve–but to bring up a worthy, compassionate human being that would do some good in this world. But you wouldn’t know.