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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m gen x and only two of my friends had their first in their 20s, and that was like 28 which everyone thought was sooo young. One friend even got called a teenage mom. [/quote]

This. I'm Gen X, and almost no one I know had kids in their 20s (and some of those were birth control failures). I feel like the majority of my friends had kids mid-30s to early 40s. I was 40 myself. But that's for highly educated, ambitious professionals on the coasts. I now live in the Midwest, where people of every generation have/ had kids in their 20s. I'm decades older than the other kindergarten moms.

I don't get why anyone thinks Millennials invented having kids late. My dad was Silent Generation and waited until 40, mostly for career reasons.[/quote]

+1 I'm 52 and had my kids at 33 and 35. Early 30s was the norm among my friends. But I do have Gen X relatives who had kids more in their early to mid 20s, generally more in the midwest or working class communities and didn't go to college. I do think having kids a little earlier would have been nice, might have tipped the balance toward having three since as it is, DH (59) will be ready to retire when our youngest is finishing college.

My mom was Silent Generation, didn't go to college, and was a big outlier in her Irish Catholic community because she didn't have her first child until 26. She got a lot of hassle about not being quick to settle down -- and then when she did she married a Protestant!! --  so she always encouraged me and my sister to take our time settling down.[/quote]

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