I see many addicted children in the neonatal intensive care unit. They suffer terribly; and, they are born with a pre-disposition to medicate problems with drugs or alcohol. Most are placed in foster care, where they spend their childhoods cycling through several homes, feeling unloved despite the efforts of foster families. At 18, they are released into the world where most respond to the stresses they have endured with the medication they were born knowing. Then they have their own addicted children.  The cycle needs to be broken somewhere, somehow. Why not elective delayed parenthood?