How old were your parents when they had you?
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Anonymous
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26 and 28. And they were really old for their crowd.
I was born in 1967. My grandmother had my mom at 29. Old back then, too, but that was a function of the depression. |
Anonymous
No, it wasn't a suprise. They probably never should have gotten married but more because of their conflicting personalities & values than their age difference. Fwiw, my dad remarried a woman about the same age as my mother & they are still happily married nearly 20 years later. My mother remarried a guy closer to her age the day after her divorce from my dad was finalized &, while they are still married (as far as I know anyway; we have been estranged since I was 13), their marriage is/was highly dysfunctional & was tumultuous & filled with drama pretty much from day one. |
Anonymous
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Born in 1982
Dad 25 Mom 27 , my mom claims to have been the oldest parent when she went to kindergarten registration because she had me so late in life lol |
Anonymous
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Mom was 37
Dad was 47 And that was in 1964 when people had kids when they were younger... |
Anonymous
| 23 & 29 |
Anonymous
You're right. I was born in 1964 and my mom was 21, dad was 22. That was a pretty normal set of ages for their peer set. |
Anonymous
| 23 and 26 in 1979. I'm the oldest. It seems very young to me now, but they were college graduates with professional careers. They never seemed too young to be parents when I was a child, they were always stable and mature. And they love being relatively young grandparents now. |
Anonymous
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Mom 35, Dad 31. (1980) DH's mom was 40 when she had him in the late 70s.
Had my first at 34 and it was a scary delivery situation for me so I've been afraid to get pregnant again even though I know the clock is ticking (38 now). I wish we'd started sooner for 2 reasons: 1. I wouldn't be so old now while considering a 2nd, and 2. we could (possibly, if we live so long and our kids have kids!) be younger grandparents. My parents and my in-laws are very loving grandparents but not very active ones. I thought I was so smart to wait, and now I think the opposite. Oh well! |
Anonymous
| ^^oops I meant 37 now. Math! |
Anonymous
Well, seeing as I was told many many many times how I ruined my mother's life, I don't think I'm projecting. "If you hadn't been born, I would have finished college and I wouldn't be stuck at this shitty job!" "I had big plans, but then I got pregnant with you and was stuck." "If I had known you'd be such a little botch all the time I would have never gotten pregnant!" That's rough enough to hear when you're an adult. I heard that stuff regularly before I was 10 years old. |
Anonymous
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Dad was 35, Mom was 30.
I had my kids at age 34 and 36. So now my parents are 66 and 71 and enjoying their grandkids but we're all hoping to avoid health issues and push them off until 80s and 90s! ANyhow, no 50 yo grandparents here! |
Anonymous
| 57 and 35. |
Anonymous
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Both DH and I were born to young moms.
My mother survived cancer when I was a teen, but it took and incredible toll on her; these days, she also suffers from multiple autoimmune diseases. Even though was was in her early 50s when my brother's children were born, she's never been a "young" grandmother. She's now in her early 60s and really limited. My MIL is even younger (still in her 50s despite the fact that DH and I did not have our kid until our mid-30s), and she's just so wrapped up in her own stuff--and desperately trying to prove to everyone how hip and with it she is--that she's not interested in having much of a relationship (fine by me for a lot of reasons). |
Anonymous
| 16&18. It's typical for most people in my family to have children in their late teens to mid20s. I'm still childless in my 30s and damn proud of it that too! |
Anonymous
| My mom was 34 and my dad was 33. THey were ahead of the trend in 1964. I was their first of two. |