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Your freedom, once you have the kids, is mostly the sign that you haven't been investing properly.
Compliancy tends to catch up pretty fast and never on the time you want. The SM success entrepreneurs are there who started after they had their first kids. Kids are never the problem.
Management skills are, and it's not an easy task to balance things out. But that's also the fun part, to overcome together with the people you love, the most minutely challenged, and build together the life you want at any point in time.