Is there a "right" age to have kids? Or are we overthinking the most natural thing humans do?
TEAMS:
🔵 Kids Under 40: Gary Cardone & Eric Rice (The Rice Report)
🔴 No Kids Under 40: Dustin Stockman & Hodel Jay
THE QUESTION:
Should you wait until you're financially established to have children, or does having kids young build character for both parent and child?
TOPICS COVERED:
• Why 45% of pregnancies in America are unplanned
• The financial reality of raising kids at different ages
• How watching parents struggle shapes resilient children
• America's birth rate crisis (1.84 vs the 2.1 needed to sustain culture)
• Why marriage rates keep declining and divorce rates keep climbing
• The "Peter Pan syndrome" plaguing modern men
• Gary's raw take on divorce, custody battles, and spending millions to keep his kids
• Eric's perspective: "Live your life like you want your eulogy read"
THE VERDICT:
All four panelists agreed: there's no perfect age. What matters is intention, preparation, and choosing the right partner. Kids don't need perfect parents. They need present ones who let them see the struggle and the triumph.
📍 Dana Debates with Cardone airs every Tuesday at 5PM ET
🎙️ Hosted by Dana Howell
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:04 Welcome to Cardone Debates: Meet the Teams + Rules (Kids Under 40 vs No Kids Under 40)
08:21 Opening Arguments: Career/Financial Readiness vs Being Young With Your Kids
21:15 Free-For-All Deep Dive: Planning, Marriage, Adversity, Culture & Birth Rates
51:18 Kids, age gaps & the real stakes for women vs men
53:57 Parenting, discipline & finding purpose (with or without kids)
01:00:10 Closing statements: raise a family, communicate, and be ready
01:06:03 Gary’s raw take: divorce, responsibility, memories & final wrap-up
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