>>937097105I'm single but know I guy who is a step-dad.
Hot take on the step-dad option: It doesn't matter if you don't care about genetics. Some people care about their bloodline. I've never understood the obsession with blood mattering more. Sometimes your family is shitty and you should drop them, but because they are blood you do anything for them? Fuck that. You get to skip the diaper face and as long as the mom lets you be a parent so that the kid respects you, you can help raise them right and teach them things both for smarts and for fun.
It could also be less complicated than adoption but hey orphans need parents too, so if you want to skip the diaper phase and help give a kid some stability, there is nothing wrong with either way.