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re: What is the appropriate age to start a family?
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:15 am to Aubie Spr96
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:15 am to Aubie Spr96
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Started my family at 22.
Being a grandparent at 45 seems wayyy better than being a grandparent at 65. For everyone involved. Parents, grandparents and kids.
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Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:16 am to czechtiger
Mid to late 20's. Need to be a home owner prior though, or you'll have a tough time getting some down payment money saved up paying for kids if you can't get an FHA or VA loan.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:17 am to Turnblad85
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Being a grandparent at 45 seems wayyy better than being a grandparent at 65. For everyone involved. Parents, grandparents and kids.
Then you mess around and have an uh oh baby in your mid-40's
This post was edited on 1/14/26 at 8:18 am
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:17 am to dyslexiateechur
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I started at 20. Was done at 25 and now I’m in my 40’s with my kids out the house.
I have no regrets.
Our youngest will likely be out of the house in August and I'll still be in my 40s.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:18 am to czechtiger
Considering the brain doesn’t finish developing until 25/26, I would say that would be a good floor for most people.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:19 am to LSURoss
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To each their own.
How many owns does each have?
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:20 am to Aubie Spr96
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Started my family at 22. While it was hard starting out, it’s amazing now.
Me too. Started at 25. Four before 30.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:20 am to czechtiger
Just depends on your situation. We had our first kid at 27 and our last kid at 35. Different stages of life for each. My wife and I got married at 25, and both had 2 years in our professional career and a house before we had our first.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:21 am to czechtiger
quote:Ease of modern life.
1) The modern world has retarded the maturation process. What has caused this?
The appropriate age is when you can financially support a child.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:27 am to MSTiger33
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started mine at 40, wife was 35. we have 3 kids. just how things worked out for us.
If your kids follow that pattern, you will be in your 80s before any grandkids.
My dad was 41 when I was born(#3 of 4). I had my first at 34. My kids never knew my dad in any resemblance of his prime. He passed at 86. They only knew him as old and asleep.
Then the double whammy of kids in college and parents in assisted living/nursing homes.
It's not ideal.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:30 am to czechtiger
The earlier the better.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:32 am to Jake88
quote:This type of thinking contributes significantly to declining birth rates, especially among the people we want/need to be having kids (high-IQ, productive citizens).
The appropriate age is when you can financially support a child.
You don't actually have to have every dollar of potential need accounted for before having children. I almost fell into this trap, but fortunately my wife was pretty insistent on having kids early in our marriage.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:36 am to Dee_oh_Dee
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Then the double whammy of kids in college and parents in assisted living/nursing homes.
I'm 39 and plan to have my first within the next couple of years. I'm not going to be in a nursing home in my early 60s. That's hyperbolic. It's all about how you take care of yourself. People of prior generations treated their bodies like shite, and that's why they looked 80 when they were 60.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:46 am to TideCPA
quote:And if you were able to support them without govt assistance, you met the simple criteria I posted.
I almost fell into this trap, but fortunately my wife was pretty insistent on having kids early in our marriage
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:49 am to czechtiger
I was 33, my wife was basically 30 (a few days shy of her birthday).
But she was in school until she was 26, and we weren’t going to have kids while she was in school.
I was 36 and my wife was 33 for our second.
My 4 year old’s classmates have parents that are mostly around our age, we are probably about average in terms of parental age compared to them.
But she was in school until she was 26, and we weren’t going to have kids while she was in school.
I was 36 and my wife was 33 for our second.
My 4 year old’s classmates have parents that are mostly around our age, we are probably about average in terms of parental age compared to them.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:50 am to facher08
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I'm not going to be in a nursing home in my early 60s. That's hyperbolic.
I think he means YOUR parents in a nursing home, not you.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:51 am to czechtiger
Neighbor once told me if you wait til you're ready to have kids, you'll never have kids.
Late 20s is a good age to have kids I think. I just think the average person reaches full maturity at that time and usually has their life in some sort of order.
Late 20s is a good age to have kids I think. I just think the average person reaches full maturity at that time and usually has their life in some sort of order.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:53 am to czechtiger
quote:The night time is the right time
What is the appropriate age to start a family?
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:54 am to czechtiger
Should have a family as soon as possible depending on the maturity of the parents. Don't want to start in mid 30s when you find out your female better half has endometriosis and adhesions. Like you said females are capable of having children in their mid teens. By the time they get to mid 30s their eggs are hard boiled.
Posted on 1/14/26 at 8:56 am to Turnblad85
quote:so what's the plan here? Grandkid at 45 then hope one of you dies in the next 20 years?
Being a grandparent at 45 seems wayyy better than being a grandparent at 65
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