What's The Normal Age to Have Children Now a Days?

[HeIsRisen2018]

I'm just curious. I'm planning on getting married in my early thirties and started having children with my beloved somewhere around there, but I was really curious what you guys think. It seems like people are waiting to have children at a much older age than they used to and in some ways I think it's good because you will be more experienced, but I think that it's bad in other ways if you won't be around to see your child graduate from high school. So yeah, what age do you think is considered normal for settling down and starting a family?

 

[Jim Parker]

I'm just curious. I'm planning on getting married in my early thirties and started having children with my beloved somewhere around there, but I was really curious what you guys think. It seems like people are waiting to have children at a much older age than they used to and in some ways I think it's good because you will be more experienced, but I think that it's bad in other ways if you won't be around to see your child graduate from high school. So yeah, what age do you think is considered normal for settling down and starting a family?

It's cultural. It depends on what country you live in and what the cultural norms are.
Some cultures expect girls to be married and bearing children by 14 of 15 years of age.
Out troops in Afghanistan have found that girls are regularly married by age 8 to 10. (Though not child bearing yet)
Among upper-middle class people of northern European descent, child bearing is often put off until the mid twenties and even into the thirties.
So, it depends on the culture.

 

[WIP]

I'm just curious. I'm planning on getting married in my early thirties and started having children with my beloved somewhere around there, but I was really curious what you guys think. It seems like people are waiting to have children at a much older age than they used to and in some ways I think it's good because you will be more experienced, but I think that it's bad in other ways if you won't be around to see your child graduate from high school. So yeah, what age do you think is considered normal for settling down and starting a family?

In the United States the trend has been toward early thirties. See here for one site that I found.

 

[I'M Grams]

As soon as you get married !

 

[Rageofangels777]

Generally it seems that kids either turn up in your early thirties or when you're a teenager. I'd say the best time is early twenties, but that didn't happen for me(us)!

 

[Willie T]

Yeah, early twenties.

 

[Prycejosh1987]

I'm just curious. I'm planning on getting married in my early thirties and started having children with my beloved somewhere around there, but I was really curious what you guys think. It seems like people are waiting to have children at a much older age than they used to and in some ways I think it's good because you will be more experienced, but I think that it's bad in other ways if you won't be around to see your child graduate from high school. So yeah, what age do you think is considered normal for settling down and starting a family?

It depends, but the best times would be late twenties, that is when everything is established.

 

[Beit Avraham]

I waited until my late 30's, but that is primarily because I had a poor first marriage rife with infidelities on her side....I would think early-mid 30's would have been preferable for me. But I am still happy that we have a child, even though I will be a bit older than I would like when he is a grown man.

 

[Susannah]

Many of the women in my generation waited to long to get pregnant. They put their career first assuming they could get pregnant any time they wanted into their forties. Biology says differently. You best fertile years are in your twenties. Your eggs are plentiful and still healthy. As you age your eggs age with you. After 29 you run the risk of taking longer to get pregnant, deformities, and miscarriages. I learned this on Oprah so it is best for you to research this yourself.

My daughter was 25 and got pregnant very easily. When she was thirty it took her two years and a lot of medicine to get pregnant. It all depends on the person. You can not generalize. Some women get pregnant at the drop of a hat even close to menopause. Others are sterile. It is the same with pregnancy. Some women can do anything they want like riding a horse. But my daughter lost a baby just walking too much at Disney Land. So I suggest you not compare yourself to anyone. Get to know your own body and proceed accordingly.

 

[Who Me]

what age do you think is considered normal for settling down and starting a family?

So what, it does not matter what age other people marry at or have children at.

What matters is that you are married and can support each other and your children.

 

[Who Me]

Sorry I didn't answer the question.
What age is normal to have children? Before one is 25 as after that age female fertility starts dropping and the older she is the harder it is to get pregnant and the greater the risk of problems.

Ideal plan, meet Mr right and marry him by the time she is 22, have one to two years as a married couple and get pregnant by age 25.

Sorry to be so blunt but that is the best plan and the unspoken part is that both are virgins when they get married.
Better statistically for staying married and better statistically for reports of being satisfied with the sex.

 

[Hospes]

What's The Normal Age to Have Children Now a Days?

About nine months older than when you have sex.

 

[humble soul]

I now think getting married as early as 20 is not such a bad idea. Problem is maturity level. Marriage has a way of maturing you though.
I wasted my 20s in a way. I tried to forge a career but did not develop any intimate relations. I think that part of me was stunted and kept me too idealistic.