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[–] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I'm about to have my first child at 48. I wasn't ready before now.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 12 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Pardon me asking (and feel free to ignore): Isn’t that scary to have a child so late in life? I’m worried about the impact my age will have on my relationship with my kids and I’m roughly a decade younger.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

200 years ago people also had kids quite late.

And we live so much longer than even 40 years ago. Life is so much better and safer now.

[–] PlasticLove@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

200 years ago people were having kids at 15-16

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

And at 40 and 45, since there wasn't birth control.

I was honestly surprised when I looked at a genealogy site, so many of my ancestresses got married at 28-30, I guess reading Little House on the Prairie when I was a kid made me think all those women of old times married young but nope, that did not seem to be the case.

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