It certainly makes sense to have kids when you can keep up with them. Even if there were a compromise - maybe not 16 but how about 20? I had my kids in my early thirties. Had a secretary who married her high school sweetheart. She was going on a cruise with just her husband for her 40th and I said, "who is going to watch the kids?" She said "They're 20 and 18 I think they'll be okay." This conversation was years ago. She is still working at the same company and I am sure she is totally financially secure. She and her husband were both very financially responsible. Every time I see her on FB they are out and about, biking, hiking, etc. They stayed really young because they raised their kids when they were young.
makes sense to have kids when you can keep up with them
Yeah, I think there's a whole conversation that just isn't happening... some people are "too young", but then when you're a little older it can become different (or impossible to have kids at some point too, you can get too old)
There are a lot of declining fertility rates and I think this is part of that culture ("too young to have kids" ... to the point where people just don't have kids)
Even if there were a compromise - maybe not 16 but how about 20?
yeah, but I just expect people to keep moving the ages to older and older
It certainly makes sense to have kids when you can keep up with them. Even if there were a compromise - maybe not 16 but how about 20? I had my kids in my early thirties. Had a secretary who married her high school sweetheart. She was going on a cruise with just her husband for her 40th and I said, "who is going to watch the kids?" She said "They're 20 and 18 I think they'll be okay." This conversation was years ago. She is still working at the same company and I am sure she is totally financially secure. She and her husband were both very financially responsible. Every time I see her on FB they are out and about, biking, hiking, etc. They stayed really young because they raised their kids when they were young.
Yeah, I think there's a whole conversation that just isn't happening... some people are "too young", but then when you're a little older it can become different (or impossible to have kids at some point too, you can get too old)
There are a lot of declining fertility rates and I think this is part of that culture ("too young to have kids" ... to the point where people just don't have kids)
yeah, but I just expect people to keep moving the ages to older and older