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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I couldn't disagree with this more.  If I married [b]the guy I dated at 27[/b], I'd be divorced and less well off than I am now.  I had so much personal and professional growth between the ages of 27 and 33 (when I ultimately got married).  I am a much better person now for having had that time to find myself.  I would highly discourage my kids from marrying before 30.[/quote]

Do you have children yet? A baby at 27 would have changed you and the father, presumably for the better. Most men don't grow up until they have a kid. Women too. In retrospect I was so selfish and immature before my first.[/quote]

My male cousin was an unemployed loser throughout his 20s. When he got his now wife pregnant at 27, he immediately went back to college (drop out) and enrolled in a nursing school program. 20 years later he makes like $400,000 in hospital administration. The responsibility and pressure of a child forces men and women grow up. All these childless 20 and 30-something men and women suffer from arrested development. It's an epidemic. Traveling, eating out, boozing, and binging on netflix and reality TV makes you shallow, self-absorbed, immature and narrow-minded. We were literally designed to have children in our 20s.[/quote]

I’m from rural Pa. This is not at all my experience with people having kids in their late teens & early 20s. My sister had a baby at 21 and the father is MIA. She’d tell you it’s one of the biggest regrets of her life.[/quote]

This thread is on a DC message board, one of the wealthiest and most educated regions in the world. OP was pretty clearly referring to college-educated 22-27 year olds, not flunkies in some podunk town in hollowed out Appalachia. And you know that, so please stop trolling.[/quote]

I’m aware, I live in Bethesda. The PP said her cousin was an “unemployed loser” and then started making $400,000. That’s completely unrealistic and rare in young pregnancy situations. [/quote]

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