What do you think the best age for a woman to begin building a family, with her first pregnancy?
Twenties or thirties?
This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
I used to think mid thirties. That's what my wife and I did. But now I think that there are reasonable arguments for doing it much earlier so that one is younger when the children are old enough to look after themselves and the mother can enjoy her own life before getting into her fifties.
Smidke · 26-30, F
@ninalanyon There is also the plain truth that women do not produce new eggs they have all they are going to have at puberty, so a healthy baby is more likely if the mother is younger when she gives birth (but the Muslim love of VERY young as sexual partners is completely wrong despite the fact that their prophet was forty years old and had an eight year old wife! And some American states like Mississippi used to allow twelve years old girls to be married with parental consent!)