(US based opinion)
Marriage / Divorce and children were horrible to my finances. Marriage is of little to no value here and mostly serves the woman as a means. Then you work hard and become boring and she runs off with a Chad or Tyrone and you flip the bill and lose over half your assets. Heck the court can make you pay her atty to sue you!
Don't get married, don't have kids. There is no need on this planet for more people and having kids is just a societal pressure. If you change your mind just pick any single mother with 3 kids from 5 different dads and pay her bills and trash your time off.
Be single, have wonderful girlfriends and when they stall out move on. Travel the world, scuba dive, fly airplanes, ride motorcycles and keep everything you worked for.
You made good points but I think this is very subjective. I know a lot of rich people who are in a good loving marriage and family. I think it is still more on the perspective of an individual. If you can handle your finances well and smartly, having a family should not be a problem. You cannot force people to not get married cause you believe every outcome will be the same.
Cant agree more with you, the comment is indeed interesting and i can feel the honesty in it, as a married man myself, and also not being married to the perfect woman, i perfectly understand things from the angle he's coming from, but then, that can not change what have been ordained to be and last forever, make all the money in the world, without you being married and having your own kids, your life will still be full of emptiness, something will always be missing in your life, think about when we get old, and can no longer walk, and maybe cant see properly too, whos child are we going to adopt to come look after us?
No marriage any where is perfect, all it takes is both saying "lets make this work no matter how hard it is", this is why in the same US, and like you've mentioned, there are a lot of wealthy men, married, with kids, and living a happy life knowing that when they die, their wealth will not be thrown to the street for just anyone to pick up, but they already have children who will take over their wealth as well as legacy .. Did the Holy book say that a prudent man, that is a wise man leaveth inheritance for his children, children children and even great grand children?