It's funny, my closest friends are all childless because they're my age and responsible enough not to have kids before they're ready, but a lot of my more distant friends and slightly older associates have been having kids recently, and they love it and are doing fine.
Like a few girls I know had kids a few years ago, and they're not financially the most stable and they're frankly not the brightest, but they seem to be doing fine and don't seem to regret it at all.
And a BUNCH of my distant associates, who I know are very similar to me in mindset and such, have been having kids the past year, and they all just seem happy, proud, and exhausted.
So, ultimately, I'm not worried about being ready for kids. I know I'd be an awesome, possibly ridiculous, father. And at this point it kinda seems up to me to continue my branch of the family tree, since my bro and his girlfriend seem to be dead set against kids. That's sad, since my brother and I both seem to have inherited an almost superhuman mix of genes, and it'd seem such a terrible waste not to pass that along if at all possible....