What age do you consider someone a young mother?

[Anonymous]

I think 27 or younger.

[Anonymous]

25 or 26

I think it's because I got married at 27 so that's like a mental barrier for me

[Anonymous]

Younger than 23

[Anonymous]

It's so different around the country.

"Young families" just refers to the age of the kids, anyone with young kids.

I got pregnant at 30 which seems average for a DC female attorney.

Other areas of the country that are rural, it's not uncommon at all to have a first kid at 17 or 18.

Our great grandma's had their last babies up until 45, 46.

I dont assign labels to it as I am friends with people of all ages.

[Anonymous]

26 or younger.

[Anonymous]

I mean, there is young and there is young. I had my first at 26 and that’s relatively young, but Im from a religious community (Mormon) and I know people who had their first at 19, 20, 21, and that’s 😳 young.

[Anonymous]

25 or younger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's so different around the country.

"Young families" just refers to the age of the kids, anyone with young kids.

I got pregnant at 30 which seems average for a DC female attorney.

Other areas of the country that are rural, it's not uncommon at all to have a first kid at 17 or 18.

Our great grandma's had their last babies up until 45, 46.

I dont assign labels to it as I am friends with people of all ages.

Did you read the question? Because you didn’t answer it.

[Anonymous]

There’s young and establish and then there’s teenage parents. Huge difference.

[Anonymous]

Under 22 if on the college track. Under 18 if on the non-college track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Under 22 if on the college track. Under 18 if on the non-college track.

Agree

[Anonymous]

I had my first at 37, so any moms under 30 seem young to me.

[Anonymous]

18 and 22 are very young mothers.

[Anonymous]

I was 26 for my one and only (now a teen).

People around DC (I've always lived in DC proper or a very close-in MoCo suburb) have always commented that I was very young, and I had trouble making mom friends I could relate to until some of my DH's friends started having kids about a year after mine was born (he is 5 years older than I am).

In the end I am very happy with things. Young empty nesters, young grandparents if our kid has a kid, and energy and time to develop my career (which we both have, very successfully).

But in the south where my family is people don't bat an eye at 22. There they are weird about 35+, whereas here 35+ is on the younger side (at least in my neighborhood).

[Anonymous]

I think some folks on here are assuming "young mom" has a negative connotation, and just thinking about teen moms or someone who has kids before attending or graduating college. Like there's a presumption of bad judgment. But I just think of it as a descriptive phrase. I am an "old mom" in that I had kids at 37, so I am raising young kids in my 40s. Sometimes I meet moms with same age kids but they are a decade younger or more. I think of them as "young moms" because while we have our kids in common, we are otherwise in different life phases and sometimes even of different generations.

I don't automatically think "young mom" means "too young" anymore than I think "older mom" means "too old." These are just comparative descriptions and at least for me, there is zero judgment attached.