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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think in DC and other areas filled with highly educated people, it's not as common to run into mothers who had their first kid at 25, because that means they didn't go to grad school or, if they did, they didn't have much of a career before they had their kids.

One of my best friends from college lives in a small town in NC. She has a PhD and is a professor but the moms on her son's baseball team treat her like she's a grandma because she didn't have him before she was 24.

So I guess I'd say, in my mind, and my world (which is admittedly a very limited universe, having grown up on the west coast in a highly educated area as well), the people I know who had kids younger are either SAHMs now because they didn't have careers before having kids, or they don't have multiple degrees. Most of my friends have not only college degrees, obviously, but one or two degrees after that, so many of us weren't fully done with school or settled beyond our first year in our jobs before we were 30.

Personally, I'd rather my kids have their kids between 30 and 34. I think there's a lot to do before you turn 30 and having kids then changes that. Not to say there's anything wrong with having children earlier, but you asked for my opinion, so there you have it.[/quote]

Your believe system is that if you have children in your 20's you can't get an education/Masters/Ph.D.?[/quote]

Well, you might not be able to because you seem to have reading comprehension issues, but no, I never said that.[/quote]

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