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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait you’re annoyed with your parents because they’re not spry when *you* decided to have a child late in life? That’s hardly fair. [/quote]

Not OP but not everyone "decides" to have a child later in life. I would have loved to have my child in my early 30s instead of late 30s, and would have loved to be young enough to have more than one. That was not an option I had, even though I wanted it. I'm grateful to have had a child at all, but this stereotype that people who have kids later were all just living it up and purposefully delaying kids is wrong. Some people might be that way, many are not. There are many reasons a person might not have a baby until 40 that have nothing to do with choosing to be an older parent.

Also, OP pointed out their parents were also older when they had them. This isn't OP's fault.

I am the 3rd of 4 kids, so my parents are much older for my kid than they were for my older siblings (big age gaps) and I didn't have my kid until 37, after 5 years of trying. I didn't choose to have older, less healthy, less involved parents when I had kids. It's just the hand I was dealt.[/quote]

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