Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.
I can't imagine my life without my kids. Raising them has been the greatest joy in my life.
I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'
I love kids, and I'm great with them, but I also love being able to give them back.
I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.
I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.
I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.
When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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