How old was your mother when she had her first child, and was that age young, old, or about average to be having kids at the time?

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How old was your mother when she had her first child, and was that age young, old, or about average to be having kids at the time?

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  2. Hectordoink Avatar

    Age 23 in 1955 which was me — she went on to have five more in the next 8 1/2 years. She was considered to be normal in terms of her age and number of children. Everyone one our street had at least four kids, one family had 11.

  3. nomadnomor Avatar

    17 and I am that kid

    my grandma was about 14 when she had her first

  4. Bay_de_Noc Avatar

    She was 28 … I was the first child. I think that was probably a little older than normal … but my Dad was in the army overseas for a couple years (WWII), which probably delayed things a bit.

  5. ShambaLaur88 Avatar

    36 back in 1988. That was old for back then. I’m 36 with no plans for kids, one factor among many is because of my age. If I was younger and the world wasn’t so fucked, I would have had one.

  6. No_Roof_1910 Avatar

    20, first child. Normal in the 1960’s.

  7. OldManTrumpet Avatar

    My mom was 26 when she had my older sister in 1958. I don’t think that was necessarily old or young at the time, judging from the age of all of our friend’s parents growing up. Possibly a year or two older than average, but close enough.

  8. Ineffable7980x Avatar

    My Mom was 26 when she had me in 1965. She tells me that was on the older side back then.

  9. PishiZiba Avatar

    32 in the late 50s. She married at 30 and the family had been convinced she’d be a spinster. Most women were around 20 when they married. My grandmother had my aunt at 46, 20 years after Dad and my uncle. Oops.

  10. precious1of3 Avatar

    She was 19 and I’m her only. She was a college student and it got her out of her parents’ house. She was not young to have a first kid but younger than she would have liked I think.

  11. Jaxgirl57 Avatar
    1. She married at 19 and had me at 20 and my 3 siblings by age 29. Not unusual for the times – her friends from high school also married young and started having kids at 19 and 20.
  12. Silver-Breadfruit284 Avatar

    21, probably average age in 1960.

  13. RunsWithPremise Avatar

    My mom was 27. I think that was considered late for that time. I think a lot more people were having kids before 25 in those days. Probably 18-20 was pretty common back then.

    They tried to have another after me and my mom ran into a lot of complications. She had miscarriages and then lost an ovary to a tumor. That pretty much put an end to things.

  14. Ebluez Avatar

    Mom was raped as a high school senior, her dad beat her for being pregnant. My dad (17) met her and they married 3 weeks later. They had 3 kids, 10 months apart, by age 20. Very young.

  15. CompleteSherbert885 Avatar

    My bio-mom was 16 when she got married, 4 months later she was pregnant and I was born a month before her 18th birthday. That was in late 1959. Don’t know if that’s early or normal. She had an abortion, then my brother (she was driving/smoking during his), then another abortion and called it quits in 1961 leaving us with our father who was 22 by then.

    I turned 30 the year my son was born in 1989 and I don’t know if that’s late or not either.

  16. SouthernTrauma Avatar

    21, normal for early 1960s.

    My paternal grandmother had her first at 18, normal for the 1920s.

  17. FrauAmarylis Avatar

    My mom was 18, her mom was 15.

    Both were quite young.

    I stopped the cycle. So stop pressuring people like me to have kids. We have reasons- it’s disrespectful to assume we haven’t given it deep thought and consideration.

  18. WeBeFooked Avatar

    Mom had my bro at 18, me at 21 and my sis at 24. I had my son at 42. She was more normal for her times than me.

  19. crap-happens Avatar

    She was 16. First child was born in 1947. Way too young.

  20. cherismail Avatar

    My mom had me in 1961, she was 15. Definitely young at any time. Her parents gave permission for her to marry at 14 and I was born 9 months later. I’ve seen the marriage license and have my original birth certificate. Mom was quite the storyteller so my theory is she told my father and her parents she was pregnant. My parents divorced before I was a year old.

  21. BKowalewski Avatar

    My mom was 30. The war interfered with relationships and marriages at the time. My parents got married and had me after the war. She was 30 and dad was 40. Then they immigrated to Canada from Europe

  22. nycvhrs Avatar

    She was 19, about average for 1944.
    Then I came along twelve years later.

  23. HisTreeNut Avatar

    She was 16 in 1947. Young for that time, and young for these days also…

  24. Mollz911 Avatar

    20 in 1967 she was a college student and so was my Dad.

  25. shammy_dammy Avatar

    20 in 1961. Pretty average for the time and place. Then she had her second/last (me!) in 1969, at 28.

  26. Adventurous_Yak1178 Avatar

    Barely 22, I was born 9 months and 2 wks after the wedding. Common to be married by age 21 in the 1950s, and as the contraceptive pill was not available it was also common to give birth within a year of the wedding. My mother was able to go on The Pill soon after my younger brother was born.

  27. challam Avatar

    She was 18 in 1929, when she had my brother, 19 in 1930, when my sister was born, and 33 when I was born in 1942.
    She was considered old-ish at my birth but probably normal for the others. She married at 16 (young even then).

  28. Spirited-Feed-9927 Avatar

    My mom was 17, 22, 29 when she had her 3 kids. It’s kind of funny, but she had my youngest brother at 29 because she was afraid 30 was too old to be having children, and she wanted one more. Now 30 is almost the age of first child being born to women and men.

    I had my kids at 28, 31, 36.

  29. ChumpChainge Avatar

    Almost 40. It was at the time considered late in life.

  30. Use_this_1 Avatar

    My mom was 24.5 when she had me in 1970, which is about 3 years older than average for the time.

  31. No-University-8391 Avatar

    23 in 1937. She didn’t get married until 22 which was considered old for where we live.

  32. bookworm1421 Avatar

    My mom was 24 when she had me and i actually think that might have been about average for the 70’s? I’m not a 100% certain though.

    She had my brother at 30 and that was definitely older for the times.

  33. Gini555 Avatar

    She was 34 (2 days before she turned 35) and that was OLD… but I have a younger sibling born 6 years later.

  34. coveruptionist Avatar
    1. Normal for the 1940s.
  35. Ordinary_Ad_3107 Avatar

    My mom was 35 and I was born in 1966. Only child

  36. margieusana Avatar

    My mom was 24. I was 25. My daughters were 32 and 29. I think we were all normal.

  37. Bowlofnoodless Avatar

    Mom was 36 in the early 80s. That was older but I was a surprise and the last child.

  38. Human_2468 Avatar

    My mom and dad were 28. My mom had had a few miscarriages before my brother was born, so they were advised to have more children soon. My oldest brother and the next one are 14 months apart. My mom had a couple more miscarriages, and then my 3rd brother was born 5 years later. I’m 18 months younger than he is. My parents were 35 when I was born.

    28 was old to have a first child in my parents’ time. They were both professionals in the medical field, so they put off having children until after medical school.

  39. tasukiko Avatar

    My mom was like a couple months into being 18 when she had my older sister and that was young but not totally unheard of at the time. At least she graduated highschool and was married by the time the baby came, although hadn’t been when the baby was made. Her and my dad stayed together though, still married today. But I’m not sure what we are going to do when my parents are in their 90s and my sister and I are in our 70s/80s.

  40. VirtualSource5 Avatar

    She was 24 and I was that “oops” baby. She was in the Women’s Army Corp and was having an affair with a married man who had three kids and became pregnant with me. I’d say her age was average but her circumstances was embarrassing in 1961.

  41. jaspnlv Avatar

    Early 20s, completely normal

  42. Candymom Avatar

    My mom was 21 with her first, married at 18. I was married at 21 and had my first at 26. My daughter was married at 21 and had her first at 25.

  43. OrdinarySubstance491 Avatar

    She was 36. I think it was considered old for the time. My parents were always the oldest amongst my friends.

  44. NetOk1109 Avatar

    My mom was 22 and I was 29. I was still too young I think.

  45. Careless-Ability-748 Avatar

    My mom was 18. It was still young at the time.

  46. pixie6870 Avatar

    My mom was 21 when she had me, and I was also 21 when I had my first child. That seems average to me for the time. She was born in 1932, and I was born in 1953. My oldest son was born in 1974.

  47. VitruvianDude Avatar

    She was 25 when my oldest sister was born, so I think about average, or slightly older for the time (1950).

  48. drewcandraw Avatar

    My mom was 21 when she had me in 1977. That was definitely on the young side back then, at least where I was raised. My brother came 3 years later, and my sister 9 years after that, all same dad.

    My parents were the youngest at my school open houses. They were the oldest at my sister’s.

  49. nooutlaw4me Avatar
    1. And yes average at that time.
  50. lapsteelguitar Avatar

    22yo when I was born. I was the first. Pretty normal for the time & place.

    I, on the other hand, was 40yo our daughter was born. Being male in my time & place, that is not too old.

  51. Liv-Julia Avatar

    My mom and dad had me (her first) right after they turned 21. That was 1959. Most of their friends were having kids then too. I had a huge cohort of “cousins” to hang with. I’d say average for young adults at that time.

    I married at 26 and my man was 30. Waited 5 years to have children. My Southern family felt I was going to be an old maid, then figured we were going to be child-free.

  52. BlueRFR3100 Avatar
    1. A bit younger than average for the 60s.
  53. Kwitt319908 Avatar

    My mom was 32 in 1985 when she had me. My grandmother was 26 when she had my mom in 1952.

  54. Suspicious_Kale5009 Avatar

    29 when she had my sister and 32 when she had me, which was considered ancient by the standards of the day. My parents were very old compared to my friends parents as I was growing up.

  55. Neldogg Avatar

    She was barely 20. She had another at 22 and another at 24.

    I wish I’d been able to realize how young she was when I was a teenager. We would’ve talked more.

  56. AbhorrentBehavior77 Avatar

    My mom was 38 years old when she had me, her one and only child.

    Back in 1977, 38 was considered ANCIENT. It was the equivalent of a 55-60 year old having a child, today.

    It was called a “Geriatric Pregnancy” and people in my mother’s life thought she was utterly out of her mind for starting a family “so late in life.”

  57. 40degreescelsius Avatar

    My Mom was 34 back in the early 70s which was old and I was 27 having my first and 36 my last in the noughties.

  58. Zealousideal_Ad_8736 Avatar

    She was 20 when my oldest sister was born, and had three other children, my brother in 1953, and twin boys in 1954), so she was 23 years old and had four children under three. Not sure how she did it !

  59. Sitcom_kid Avatar

    She’d been 20 for two weeks and it was considered young, even in the mid 60s.

  60. Cute-Hovercraft5058 Avatar

    My mom was 22 when she had me in 1966. I think that was the norm for the time. She was 19 when she had my brother.

  61. WoodenEggplant4624 Avatar

    Mum was 22 years old, married nearly a year, about average for the late 1950s I think.

  62. mothraegg Avatar

    My mom had 4 by 25. I think it was pretty normal for the 60s. My parents are still married 64 years later.

  63. IntentionAromatic523 Avatar

    My Mom was 18 when I was born.

  64. mistegirl Avatar

    My mom was 27 and had been told she would never be able to have kids, then oops here I am. She was pretty old for the time (77) and had my sis 2 years later. She’s now in her 70’s with one grandkid who my sister had in her early 30’s.

    I love making the comparison to my aunt, who is 2 years older than mom, who had 7 kids, 34 grandkids and I want to say 8 great-grandkids and possibly a great-great in there somewhere when she passed last year. She started at 14 and each generation after her kind of followed suit.

    It’s wild to me the impact of having kids early or late in life and how likely the next generation is to follow that trend. (not judging by the way, just something I noticed in my own family)

  65. Pandora29 Avatar

    My mother was 28 when I, her first child, was born one year after her wedding. This was in 1971. She had been engaged twice before she married my father. Yes, she told me that 27 was considered very old to be getting married and starting a family. In contrast, when I got married 20+ years later at 26, it felt like I was crazy-young to be getting married!

  66. saagir1885 Avatar

    My mom had me at 19.

    That was in 1962.

    She was already out of high school and married.

  67. AardvarkTerrible4666 Avatar

    I was born in 1955. My mother had two kids by the time she was 20. One more snuck in when she was 32.

  68. LibrarianAcrobatic21 Avatar

    My mom was 23 and had graduated college when she had her first in 1959. Then she got her masters and had another at 30. Then finally, a boy at 34.

  69. eliota1 Avatar

    My Mom was 38 when I was born in the late 50s. That was late but not unheard of.

  70. Jujulabee Avatar

    My mother was 28 when she had my brother in 1947.

    It wasn’t unusual because many people had their lives interrupted by WWII which is why there was a baby boom. The first wave of baby boomers were about one year after demobilization 🤷‍♀️😂

    My contemporaries had their first children in their thirties because they were finishing grad school or professional school, launching careers and waiting until they were financially stable before they started families

    I don’t know any people among my relatives or close friends who had children in their twenties as most of them didn’t have children with their first marriages or serious relationships and statistically second marriages or long term partnerships are less likely to get divorced.

  71. No-Boat5643 Avatar

    19 pretty normal.

  72. PickleManAtl Avatar

    The oldest sibling was born in the early 1950s and my mother said she and my father had got married when she was 18 and had him around the time she was turning 19. But through the years, we all did the math and she would’ve had to have gotten pregnant in her mid 17th year based on my brother‘s birth certificate. We mentioned it to her a couple of times and she quickly dismissed it and would get angry.

    This is of course remembering that they grew up in West Virginia in the 1930s, basically on what was something similar to Walton’s Mountain. So the way we pieced it together, she got pregnant, and then my dad joined the Marines and they both moved to a Marine base out of state immediately.

  73. figsslave Avatar

    She was 23 which was typical in the 50s. My wife had her first at 31 in the 80s.My daughter is 34 and has no desire to have kids yet

  74. Justin-Los_Angeles Avatar

    Mom was 19 and I think that was pretty normal.

  75. PollutionQuick140 Avatar

    My mom was 29 (in 1972) which was on the old side, my brother is 5 years younger than me and she was the oldest mother amongst his friends.

  76. Shot-Artichoke-4106 Avatar

    My mom was 23. I think that was fairly average for the time.

    My grandmothers were 22 and 23 when they had their first children.

    My great-grandmothers were 19, 19, 23, and 27. The one great-grandmother who was 27 when her first child was born was definitely older than average at the time. She only got married because the stigma around being a spinster was too much.

  77. Building_a_life Avatar

    My mom was 31 when I was born in 1944. That was on the older side of normal for her time. Because of the depression, some people like my parents married “late” because it was harder to get established financially.

    My wife was 20 when we had our first child in the mid 60s. We were the first among our friends to become parents.

  78. Academic_Ad_8229 Avatar

    Mid 20’s, which was average age in the 1970’s.

  79. OfficiousJ Avatar

    My mom was 27. I was actually the youngest person in the family to get pregnant, got pregnant at 21 with my first

  80. scantron3000 Avatar

    My mom was 32 when she had me in 1980, but she said they had been trying for a few years. My parents had been married for almost 5 years at that point. My grandmother was 30 when she had my mom, who was their only child, so it doesn’t seem like she was all that old. I had just turned 33 when I had my daughter.

  81. InterviewLeather810 Avatar

    Three weeks before turning 23 my mom only had me.

  82. Specialist_District1 Avatar

    My mom was 17 when she had me in 1972. I was her second child – the first was given up for adoption and has already passed away. Teenage pregnancy seemed common in my parents’ families and that community at the time. Seems birth control wasn’t prioritized or widely available

  83. Loreo1964 Avatar

    19, which was great because they married when she was 16. Dad was going into the Air Force.

  84. implodemode Avatar

    My mom lost a baby at about 27 and was told she wouldn’t likely carry to term so they adopted when she was 28. She did manage to farry 3 babies. I was an oops when she was 37. It was old and she looked older.

  85. chameleon_123_777 Avatar

    My mom was 22 and my dad 24. Most people got kids young at the end of the 1960’s.

  86. Charliewhiskers Avatar

    My mom was 24 when she had a first child in 1960. I think that’s about average for that time.

  87. adknight11 Avatar

    My mom got pregnant when she was 19 after a one night stand with an ex boyfriend. This was in 1968 and she hid it for a long time. My grandparents sent her to another state to stay in a home for pregnant girls. She had the baby and was forced to give him up for adoption. When she returned home, no one ever spoke of it again. My mom had two more kids shortly after and then she had me when she was 41 in the 90’s. When I was 28, I did an ancestry dna test and my mom’s son was able to find her and his dad. They met and a few years later he committed suicide. Our hearts have hurt about that ever since. My mom and the one night stand ex boyfriend have been dating for the last 6 years… he’s been a huge blessing to our family.

  88. Koren55 Avatar

    My Mom delivered a stillborn when she was 21. The fetus had died four weeks before his due date. But because of anti-abortion laws, she was forced to carry a dead fetus for four weeks. It was only when she reached her original due date that the doctors induced labor. Crazy, right?

  89. ProfileEfficient9431 Avatar

    Mom was just 20 when she had my oldest brother. She met my dad when he was on leave, got married 10 days later, and she was pregnant before he deployed. Dad was in the 101st Airborne. They went on to have 7 children, last one born when Mom was 42.

  90. Rockstar81 Avatar

    She was 27 in ’81. It was just above average for a first child.

  91. QV79Y Avatar

    She was 22, almost 23. I think that was pretty typical for the time (1945). She’d been married for almost 3 years already.

  92. prunepicker Avatar

    Mom was 20 when she had her first child. It was 1938. Looking at her scrapbook, she attended a lot of baby showers around that time, so I assume 20 was a common age to start a family.

  93. elphaba00 Avatar

    My mom was 26 when she had me (her first and only). When she took me to my six-week check-up, it was her 27th birthday. I think that was about average for the 70s. She said she didn’t feel like an older mom.

    Now my MIL was 32 when she had her first (my husband). Everyone thought she was either infertile or not interested. Turns out she was trying for years so maybe some infertility and then got pregnant again five months after she had my husband.

    Both my grandmas were teen/young moms. One grandma graduated high school pregnant and then married my grandpa a couple months later. The other grandma married a few months out of high school and then had my aunt a couple years later after my grandpa got back from WW2. My aunt was an OG baby boomer.

  94. Optimal-Ad-7074 Avatar

    40, iirc. late for a practicing catholic in the mid-60’s. she had several miscarriages before my bro was born, and all three of us kids are DES babies who didn’t quite make it to term. we all started life in incubators afaik.

  95. rosesforthemonsters Avatar

    My mother turned 19 five months before my brother was born. My mother was pregnant when she and my father got married — that’s why they got married. 18 years old was definitely a young age to be pregnant in 1969. People generally weren’t getting married that young either.

  96. amboomernotkaren Avatar

    30 and a college graduate in 1957. Yes, that was considered old.

  97. prpslydistracted Avatar

    Brother and I were both post WWII kids. Not that he had anything to do with it but the priest came by before the war started and asked why they hadn’t had any kids yet. At the time they had been married almost 5 yrs.

    After all, it’s the Catholic thing to do …. 😉

  98. Seven_bushes Avatar

    First one she was 25, 7 months after getting married. Last one was me at 32. It seemed like women had kids earlier then because a lot didn’t have to work. We were lower middle class and still got by on my dad’s salary with a house and 2 cars. My mom went to work after I started school. School was close enough to walk to and we all knew where the key was to get in the house when we got home.

  99. Moist-Doughnut-5160 Avatar

    My mom was 25.

    I had my twins when I was 33 . But I had infertility problems. I was 30 years old before the technology was developed to fix my endometriosis.

    To me the time to have a baby is when it’s right for you .

  100. dMatusavage Avatar

    Mom got married at 17 but didn’t have my oldest brother until she was 19.

    Very typical at that time.

  101. Specialist-Corgi-708 Avatar

    My mom was in 30 when she had my sister. And 34 when she had me. She was old for her day in the 60s.

  102. Complete-Finding-712 Avatar

    First at 30, last at 38. She was old at the time. Always the oldest mom dropping off the kids at school/ clubs/ parties, too.

    By 30, I already had 3. Quite young, at the time, especially as a married woman who had kids on purpose haha

  103. ImportantSir2131 Avatar

    Mom was 32. That was in 1953. I think it was considered old for a first child.

  104. oldbluehair Avatar

    My mother was 23 mid 1960’s. Younger than HER mother who was 25 when she had her first in 1943.

  105. snerdie Avatar

    I was the first kid for my parents. Mom was 28 at the time. That was pretty standard for the early 1970s.

  106. WindowElectronic3791 Avatar

    My mom was 25 in 1950 when she had her first child (me).
    I was 22 in 1972 when I had my first child.
    My first child was 35 when she had her first child.

  107. bebemochi Avatar

    My mom was 24 in 1977 when she had me, which was about average I believe.

    Read on for an anecdote: I’m an only child because my parents took in my mom’s younger sister and my dad’s younger half brother. They were around 14. I was 2 at the time. Can you imagine being a young mom of 25 and suddenly having two teenagers only 10 years younger than you to care for, too? My dad’s brother was coming off of using drugs, too. By the time the teenagers were out of the house I was about 8 and my parents decided it was too big of an age gap to have another of their own. I imagine they were pretty tired too lol.

  108. maestramuse Avatar

    My mom was 24 when she had me and 27 when she had my sister. I’m 53. I think that might be a little late for the Boomer generation. She met my dad at college.

  109. D-Spornak Avatar
    1. My mom was 15. She had two more by 22 and then stopped.
  110. stuck_behind_a_truck Avatar

    23, only child, my mom FAFO’d with a stranger while married. Typical age, though. 1970 so I exist. I would not have as of 1972.

  111. CindyinMemphis Avatar

    My mother had me when she was 17. My father was 24. She grew up in the 50s in a town with a population of approximately 100 people. My Dad has been in the Army, had traveled, etc. and lived in the neighboring town about 5 miles away. They had my two sisters, all two years apart and then divorced. My mom was 23, 3 kids , no education and divorced at 23. It wasn’t easy.

  112. McBuck2 Avatar

    My mom was 31 to 35 having 3 kids which was quite delayed compared to early 20’s back then. My dad wanted her to be able to stay home with us so had to get the mortgage down. We were 6 to 8 years behind all our cousins and I the youngest didn’t really end up with relationship with them.

  113. nuwaanda Avatar

    My grandmother was 19 when she had my mother in 1965. Already married a year…

  114. Casingda Avatar
    1. Average for the times (this was in the 50s). I’m her first child, BTW.
  115. OldBat001 Avatar

    My mom was 29 and considered old, but our family has had first kids older for generations. My great-grandparents were born around the time of the Civil War.

    I was 32 when I had my first, and my mom thought I was too young because I’d only been married for three years. My folks had been married for six years before they had my brother.

  116. bidhopper Avatar

    Mom was 21 when she had me, 23 when she had my sister and 27 when she had my little sister. I assume that was normal for that time.

    My wife was 25 when she had our youngest, 28 when she had the middle one, and 31 when she had our last child.

  117. Tiny-Street8765 Avatar

    Great Grandmother, Grandmother and Mother 21.
    I waited until 23. My child was 30.
    So from 1921 until the present day.

  118. Unusual_Ada Avatar

    38 for my sister, 42 for me. Considered very old at that time.

  119. Bag_of_ambivalence Avatar

    23 in 1962. Pretty typical at the time.

  120. No_Cricket808 Avatar

    16, that was about average for the time. 16/17

  121. JustYourAvgHumanoid Avatar

    I was her first & only. She was 18 in 1974 when I was born. No idea what the norm was at that time

  122. natalkalot Avatar

    My mom was 21 when she had her first, they were married for two years before that.
    So she had her first child in 1947, her sixth in 1971 when she was 45.
    I think those ages were pretty standard then, my parents were married in 1945, western Canada. Dad was five years older than mom, and had emigrated from Ukraine when he was 9 years old.

    I was the fifth kid, born when she was 35.

  123. Pitiful_Control Avatar

    26 in the 1960s was considered a bit older than typical. But it also wasn’t typical for women to go to college, especially not working class women, however my mom and both of her sisters did. What was typical is that she was only allowed to keep her job when she married because the school she worked at was desperate for teachers, and as soon as they found out she was pregnant 2 years later, she was forced to quit.

    My dad was 10 years older, so really old for a first time father then. They had a great and very equal relationship- also NOT typical based on what I saw at friends’ houses.

  124. HoselRockit Avatar

    Mom was 23 when she had the first in 1951. She then had three more within a four year span. The next was four years later and I was four years after that. In HS I asked if the last two of us were unplanned and she said non of us were planned, she just got a lot more careful. I then asked how many times was she not careful after the first four and she twice and that’s when she got my brother and then me. About that time my dad was walking thought the room and he looked at me and said he gets nervous just shaking her hand.

  125. Any_Assumption_2023 Avatar

    My mother was almost 40 back in the 1950s, and that was considered dangerously old at the time.  I was also accidental, she didn’t like children.  

    She also never let me forget my early birth made her miss the Duke Carolina football game that year. 

  126. Aggressive_Habit_207 Avatar

    My mother had me at 41, which was very old for her time.
    I always said I would never have a child at that age and I did too. But for my time I saw that I wasn’t that old.

  127. Grave_Girl Avatar

    My mother was 19 when my brother was born in 1970. According to the CDC, the average age then was 21.4, so she was younger than average. Then she had me at nearly 30 (I was born in mid-August; her birthday is early October) in 1979, when the average age to have your first was 24.8 years, so she was quite a bit older than the mothers of most of my classmates. I had one classmate whose mother was 12 when she had her first child, and my best friend’s mother was that age when she had him (they’re not siblings), but of course those were outliers as well, just particularly horrific ones.

  128. ObligationGrand8037 Avatar

    My mom got married when she was 20. She didn’t have a child until she was 25 because she wanted to wait. Back then, getting married early was normal. I didn’t get married until I was 38 and had my first child at 39. It’s just how things worked out.

  129. OkAwareness6282 Avatar

    1975 mom was 36 when she ah d me birthday at 38 yes that old as dirt in those days

  130. Timely-Profile1865 Avatar

    She was 21 I believe, this was during WW2. Her first husband was killed in action (tailgunner on a bomber) and never did see his child. She married my father (who was also in the RCAF) a few years later and they had 6 other kids with me being the youngest, she was 41 when she had me.

  131. DependentFun2691 Avatar

    My mom had me at 19 in 1970. To me I think that was young for the time. I had mine at 22 in 1992. Not as young.

  132. Erthgoddss Avatar

    She was 20. I think that was considered old back in 1937.

  133. Blue_Pride420 Avatar

    My mother was 18 when she had me in February of 1949. My parents did get married before I was born, but obviously started the process early and out of order. In those days, marriage right out of high school was common.

  134. Ok-Cap-204 Avatar

    My mom was 24. When she and my dad first got married, he was in the Navy, so he was gone for 3 years at a time (1950s). He left within days of their marriage. After returning 3 years later, my mom was pregnant with my oldest sibling in just 3 months. My dad’s naval career had him home for three years and the away for three years. So my parents had groups of kids separated by three years.

  135. AuroraDF Avatar

    My mother was 28, in the early 70s. I’d say that was quite late.

  136. Durango1949 Avatar

    My mom was 19. I think this was typical in rural Oklahoma in the late 40s.

  137. SafeForeign7905 Avatar

    She was 27, which was old for a first child in her time. I was the same age when I had my first but it wasn’t that unusual in the late 70s.

  138. AvocadoSoggy9854 Avatar

    I was an only child and my mom was 27 when I was born, that was considered fairly ancient in 1958

  139. Plmb_wfy Avatar

    My grandmother was 18 when she had my mom, my mom was 18 when she had me and I was 18 when I had my oldest son and 10 months later had another son at 19. Now those sons are in their 30’s and no kids..We broke the curse y’all.

  140. Switchgamer1970 Avatar

    My mom was 19 when she had me in 1970.

  141. BackgroundGate3 Avatar

    My mum had her first at 26, which was quite late then. She had her second at 28 and thought she was done with one of each. Then I came along 7 years later when she was 35, which was especially old. When she went to my school for parents’ evening she said she thought people would think she was my gran 🤣

  142. Independent_Mix6269 Avatar

    I am not sure what age exactly as it’s a sensitive subject, but she had to drop out of school. Def not the norm in the 70s

  143. Affectionate-Dot437 Avatar

    Mom was 24, pregnant by her married boyfriend from back home. When word got out her teaching contract in Chicago was terminated mid semester and she moved back. Surprise! He didn’t leave his wife.

    Of course, she never told us anything and the family/community apparently kept her secrets. Odd photos with unfamiliar people and unfamiliar locals all had vague stories. Anniversary and birthday dates didn’t line up, and we got scolded for being nosey. My sisters and i were pushing 50 before an aunt slipped up and spilled the tea. Shocking that such a judgey, self-righteous Queen Bee had such a scandalous chapter. 😉

  144. esp735 Avatar
    1. And out of wedlock. Super fun when my parents told me I was “a mistake.” My wife and I had our first at 32. That seems about right.
  145. CulturalDuty8471 Avatar

    My mom (85) was in her early thirties. I had my first at 21 and second at 26.

  146. lilbabynoob Avatar

    My mom is 66 now and she had her first kid at 34.

  147. DeFiClark Avatar
    1. That age was considered old for having kids.
  148. Theresnowayoutahere Avatar

    My mom was 19 when she had me. She had no idea what she was doing. This was in 1960 so very common back then

  149. Nonnie0224 Avatar

    Mom got married at age 18, first baby 10 months later at age 19 in 1947, second baby 14 months later at 20 in 1948, widowed at age 20 and then learned she was pregnant with her third baby who was born 12 months later at age 21 in early 1950. She remarried in late 1951, and had fourth baby in late 1952, followed by fifth baby twelve months later, less three days in 1953, and sixth baby 17 months later in 1955. So six kids by the time she was 26.

    This was not all that unusual for mothers in the mid 1940’s – 50’s before birth control pills were available.

  150. dizcuz Avatar

    Mine was young but that’s often just how it was back in those days. Some began waiting until later to begin having children, if at all.

  151. Kremphizzar Avatar

    My mom had me at 19 years old in the 60s. Young, but not young for the time.

  152. MotherOf4Jedi1Sith Avatar

    She had me at 19. My mom and dad married 15 months prior. I think they were both running from abusive situations. I’d have to say that was pretty young to be having kids.

  153. boringlesbian Avatar

    My mother married my father when she was 16 and he was 20. She had my brother nine months later. My father was raised Catholic and his parents got married at 15 and 16 and had their first ten months later. My mother’s mother was unmarried and 14 when she had my mother.

  154. BlueOrbifolia Avatar

    My mom was 30 in 1972. Quite aged for the time, for a first child.

  155. ciceroblues Avatar

    My mom was 28 with her first kid ( of 2) in 1968. The nurse was surprised that was her first. Sadly, there was a 15 year old girl in the next room giving birth in agony. My mom mentioned that the girl didn’t have family, so assuming her newborn was given up for adoption.

  156. smokiechick Avatar

    My mom was 31 and that was old. She made jokes about being the oldest lady in the PTA. Her grandmother, however, had her only child at 46! Had no idea she was pregnant. Thought she was going through “the change.” In 1922, that was ancient.

  157. Physical-Question985 Avatar

    My mom was 28. That was a little old in the early 60’s.

  158. sapphir8 Avatar

    It was me. Let’s see, 1979-1945, but in 1979 before her b-day….so 33.

  159. NorthvilleCoeur Avatar

    Mom had me at 31, which was older at the time. I had my daughter at 29 and I am a little younger than most moms.

  160. tyamar Avatar

    I was the first. She had me 3 months before her 21st birthday. All her kids were born within a week of each other. So her next were at almost 25, 27, and 36.

  161. onawhirl Avatar

    I think my mom was maybe a little younger than most, she met my dad at a college party and he was almost 10 years older, her parents were not happy about that as she was naive at the time and he was already established and out of college. They married within a year and she had my sister at the age of 20, still speculation that she was pregnant at marriage. She had me at 23 and then my two other siblings followed after. She was one of the first patients on “the pill” and she was thrilled with that!

  162. secretvictorian Avatar

    Grandmother; 24 in 1959, this was average age back then.

    Aunt: 19 in 1970 i think this was average but ever so slightly young average.

    Mother: 20 in 1985. I suspect it was a few years on the young side, but not glaringly so.

    I was 30 when I had mine in 2016. Afaik this was average and my friends are all older than 30 yet to have their first.

  163. susannahstar2000 Avatar

    Mom was married at 18, had my sister at 19, early 1950s. I would say alot of girls probably married young, in the postwar years.

  164. CompleteTell6795 Avatar

    My mom was 38 when I was born. It was 1950. She had at least 6 miscarriages before me. They didn’t know about the Rh incompatibility until almost 1950. My dad was Rh +, she was Rh -, I was Rh+. I was born almost 3 months premature I only weighed 3 lbs. At that time period it was considered extremely old to be having a baby.

  165. bubbameister1 Avatar

    My mom was 25, a late starter for the early 1950s, but she wanted to finish medical school first. Education is still correlated with starting later, it’s now just much later.

  166. CuteTangelo3137 Avatar

    Mom married my dad when she was 19, he was 20. She had me when she was 20. They are still married.

  167. Dismal_Upstairs3949 Avatar

    My mom was 20 when she had her first child in 1946.

  168. JudgementalChair Avatar
    1. Just about right for all the other parents in the area I grew up in
  169. bass-77 Avatar

    24, about normal

  170. Twinkie4ever Avatar

    My mom was 29 , which back in the mid 50’s was old. She had 4 more in the 10 years. She really didn’t want marriage and kids . She wanted a career at a bank job she loved, but she was criticized and eventually caved in reluctantly.

  171. baddspellar Avatar

    35, back in 1961.

    Old for that time

  172. Wizzmer Avatar

    24, average. 31 for her second.

  173. AllantoisMorissette Avatar

    19 with her first, 45 with her last. In the 80s, I think that was normal for a Mormon woman

  174. kitchengardengal Avatar

    My mother married at 27 in 1951 and had my oldest sister at 28, then three more daughters – at 30, 32, and 34. That was a little on the late side to get married and have kids, but she was a career woman working for the federal government in DC then. She really took some convincing to even go on a first date with my father, then they were married 6 months later.

  175. BusyDragonfruit8665 Avatar

    34 and it was oldish to be having kids.

  176. master_prizefighter Avatar

    Myom was 22 when she had me. I’m 43M and no kids. She keeps asking co workers for their grandkids because I refuse to have kids.

  177. ansyensiklis Avatar

    My mom was 31 for first kid and 42 when I was born. I was that kid with old parents.

  178. biff444444 Avatar

    She was 21, it was 1959. That seems super young today, but I think it was probably not unusual at that time.

  179. ggwing1992 Avatar

    23 (1965) about average for a college educated woman. I was 26 (1995).

  180. ninkadinkadoo Avatar

    My mother was 22 in ‘73 when I was born. I don’t think that’s too abnormal for the time.

  181. BeerWench13TheOrig Avatar

    My parents tried for 8 years and were in the process of adopting when they finally got pregnant. They were 30. In those days, that was pretty old.