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[quote=Anonymous]IME it's regional.  Here it's unusual to have kids in your 20s because so many people have advanced degrees and either marry older or both want to be established in their careers before having kids.  Plus housing is $$$ and saving up for a down payment/paying off SLs can push the timeline back a few years even if you found your spouse on the younger side.  Where I grew up there's a real "get a man to propose to you in college because otherwise all you'll be left with after 25 is the weirdos" attitude and if you don't have your first until your 30s it's seen as very strange/sad.  People will assume you're a lesbian if single or experiencing infidelity otherwise.  I had someone from my high school tell me that I should just try to get knocked up by a one night stand so that I would "at least have a baby" once - no I was not asking this person for any advice on my life, nor would I have taken any from her.  But the mindset of "how sad you have no one to love you" even when I was living in NYC and attending law school in my 20s was not surprising to me.  It's a whole vibe back home.

Yet people still have kids outside the accepted regional timeline in both places.  [/quote]

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