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I was looking on Facebook and I realized a lot of people I went to high school with now have a kid! I am only 22. None are married and a few are on baby number two! What is wrong? Do most of these people plan to get pregnant? Don't they know this mostly just leads to poverty? I really don't want to date a baby momma either. I am too young to have to settle for that!
No idea. I know people my age already talking about having kids while still in their 20s. I don't think today's young people should have children before 30.
No idea. I know people my age already talking about having kids while still in their 20s. I don't think today's young people should have children before 30.
If you have your stuff together, then why not?
I had my first kid well before 30. Wife and I were already in our house over 2 years and it was time to fill it up
I had my first kid well before 30. Wife and I were already in our house over 2 years and it was time to fill it up
I understand mid to late 20s if youre financially stable. So many people have babies between 18 and 23 and I just think it seems too young. The girls I know that got pregnant right after high school were on welfare and dropped out of college. To me that just seems like a hard life. The young years most people spend discovering themselves are being spent tied up with kids barely with enough money. By your mid 20s (25 plus) people are more established and comfortable with their life so I think it's fine then.
Biology. There is more to sex than just easy fun and pleasure, the sex drive goes along with the reproductive drive.
It's only been in the past few decades that childhood for humans has been extended up until age 30 or 35, adulthood is physically reached by about age 18. When you artificially suppress human nature, and human biology, you won't be able to suppress it in everyone.
Not so long ago it was perfectly normal for people to marry somewhere between age 18 and 21 and start their families. Now we're trying to make it normal only to start a family at around age 35 but many will not go along.
I knew very few people who had kids in their early 20's. I don't know if it is a prolific problem, or just who you happen to be friends with on FB. I see you are in San Diego. If that is where you are from, it is a little surprising. I'd expect it more in the mid-west. I had a 40 year old friend holding her 1 year old get asked if she was the grandma. That was in Iowa or somewhere.
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