yes.

lots of reasons

I couldn't possibly know, for example, in 2007, that i would get involved with bitcoin in march 2009. Betting the future of some child on a cryptocurrency that didn't exist yet, when i could barely get like my best friend and girlfriend on ripple (and even then both of them treated it as worthless 'jeff bucks') would have been supremely reckless, and given i was often homeless and broke, i was in no position to raise a child and it was looking like that wasn't going to change. Winning the lottery not once but twice was not something I could have predicted in retrospect. All I looked forward to was starving/freezing on the street when things inevitably fell apart. Every single man in my life who was having kids, their relationships fell apart & they were stuck paying child support* and it was leading them into ruin, one by one. Or they just were deadbeat dads, and I never wanted to be *that* guy. I knew that sooner or later I'd knock some chick up, and that the barely-treading-water level of survival i had would fall apart. And sure enough: i lost my job right after that, in 2007, and then the next one, in early 2009, having to live out of a tent for abit, until my 2 concurrent fulltime jobs gave me enough of a cushion to find a place.

but i figured, even if i did eventually get out of that kind of situation, by some miracle, there were so many kids that were *not* being taken care of, that needed a father figure in their life, that i'd much rather help them then add another mouth to feed. There were child prostitutes at the schools i helped instruct piano at, for example -- they were just some of the example of the 1 in 5 children in saskatchewan who live under the poverty line and who face food insecurity and whatnot. I figured that there'd be a single mom that would appreciate bailing her out of her mess, to the extent I could, and that would be better than just creating more children when there's already too many.

* and fun fact: in canada child support doesn't have to be proportional to your income. The judge can just up and say 'you're paying N$ per month' even if you only make (N-k)$/month , in effect meaning you have to borrow money to even pay the support, nevermind to survive.