![]() ![]() By the time I came around, my grandparents were elderly, so they told me stories instead of taking me places. My eldest brothers and cousins were decades older than me, which exposed me to different life experiences from a young age. ![]() The positives of waiting are evident in my own upbringing.īy having older parents, I had constant exposure to a web of generations for advice and inspiration. Celebrities are having children into their 70s, and especially in New York City I meet people all the time having first children well into their 40s. While I used to want to have children closer to 30 than 40, my feelings have shifted.įor one, the stigma around "older" parents is not as present today. I've learned there are positives to waiting to have kidsĪs I've gotten older, I reflect on it often as I help care for my nieces and nephew and consider when I want to start my own family. So much so that at the time, my teenage (half) brothers joked they would be taking me on college tours.īesides the fact that I wondered why my parents were some 10 to 15 years older than most in my small suburban hometown, I didn't think about their age much growing up. At 40 and 45, my mother and my father were well beyond that average when I was born in 1992. This month, I will be 31 one year above the rising average age of first-time mothers in the United States. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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