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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just pointing out that having women start having children in their 30s in not uncharted territory.  My mom, like OP's, was in her early 20s when she had her first, but my Grandmother was 31, because she was too busy working through the Depression and defeating Hitler and all that to settle down.  There were a lot of women who didn't have kids until after the war, and if that meant they were older, then they were older.  I'm not sure what my point is, other than that [b]we shouldn't think all the women of the past had babies young[/b].

Also, if you wanted to settle down in your 20s and have kids, you could have probably accomplished that.  You got to choose to wait for the right partner, the right career/educational path, etc.  Don't forget the stifling effect that pressure to settle down and have kids can have on society.  [/quote]

Very true, plus before birth control women had babies up until ... they couldn't anymore, basically. So they might have started young but they were still having kids in their late 30s. My dad is one of six kids and there is more than a decade between the oldest and the youngest. [/quote]

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