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[quote=Anonymous]So there’s a big variation of people in their early 20s. I’m 34 so in the older millennial demographic. I’m also from the Midwest and attended weddings of my friends during and right after college. I personally got married at 25. This was seen as a very normal/average age in my hometown/area in general. Many of my friends/classmates/acquaintances got married at 21-23 and had kids basically right away BUT at the same time both partners had college degrees and decent jobs with benefits. I also knew/still know a lot of enlisted military families. I would say the “had kids at age 25 or earlier” set did, overall, get more family help than those who had kids later but again, they also grew up in families/cultures where this was the norm and where grandparents expected to help out.

I also knew people who were still partying, going out almost every night, not married or even seriously dating in this same age group. One of them got pregnant and it was seriously shocking to everyone. They ended up continuing to date, had the baby, eventually moved in together and got married and had another kid. Another got pregnant and rushed into marriage before the kid was born and it ended horribly for everyone. So it really, really just depends on the couple. There are still huge areas of the country where relatively young marriage and 2 kids by your late 20s is the norm and it works for them, but if you get pregnant from a FWB when you’re in grad school then yeah I could see how that would be shocking/unusual. [/quote]

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