at what age do you think you should start a family?

Answer 1

If you want advice from someone who is older, have your familty while you are still fairly young. The teen years are a bit young. But the twenties is best. Even if you have to scrimp and save or even have one parent stay home for child care, you will think they were the happiest days of your life. And then all of a sudden those years are gone, they go in a blink of an eye, so fast that you think it's unfair.

Answer 2

There is no right or wrong age here.

The best or ideal time would be when you have some solid & established living behind you (no drifting aimlessly through life here!) and have gone through lots and lots of life experiences, have met all kinds of different people (male & female regardless of your gender & sexual orientation) from all walks of life, have seen a bit of the outside world, i.e., have seen what the world outside your bedroom window looks like. Don`t be afraid to travel a little bit, wander outside your hometown, your province or state, your country, your continent, just see for yourself how the other half lives, basically.

Bottom line is, you need to sow your wild oats before contemplating family life, I don`t care if you`re male or female, we all have wild oats to sow, know what I mean? If you don`t do it now, while you`re young & free and before you get seriously involved with a potential soulmate on such a deep & intimate level that you`re actually considering marriage & children, you will only regret later when it`s much too late for you and that`s a 100% certainty!

Think about it! What would happen if you get tempted later on down the line while you`re already supposedly committed to your husband/wife, fiancé(e) or partner? What would happen to your relationship, your children, your whole family that you have now created? Don`t you firmly believe that it would be too late by then to start thinking about "playing the field", so to speak?

I also strongly believe that you shouldn`t think about starting a family unless you`re seriously involved with the love of your life (hopefully!) in a loving, long-lasting and committed relationship. You absolutely need to be sure of your significant other here and that he/she is as 100% convinced as you are that now is the time to start a family otherwise you will both regret it later on in life and that`s a promise!

You also both need to be emotionally & financially stable (and debt-free too with a little luck!), that`s an extremely important factor because children can and are very expensive little creatures! As long as one of you has a steady and reliable job which brings in a decent income to live on, you should be okay but if both of you can work full-time before getting pregnant, that would be a lot better, if not ideal, evidently.

Word of warning: you really should not consider starting a family during your teenage years, like so many young girls do these days, for several obvious reasons.

Firstly, you are still a child yourself and children CANNOT raise children!

Secondly, you are emotionally AND financially unprepared & incapable to look after anyone, even yourself, let alone a family of your own!

Thirdly, you are still growing up & maturing physically, emotionally, physiologically and psychologically, which is a clear indication that now is not the time to think about reproducing!

Fourthly, you still have no idea who you really are deep inside, you have no life experience & necessary skills or maturity and still have no idea or concept of what the rest of the world outside your own family nucleus is and can be like, anthropologically & socially speaking.

And lastly, because of all those reasons I mentioned above, you still have nothing of real & valuable interest to offer a potential mate or a child so therefore, please refrain from having children during your teens (mid or late teens, it`s all the same; you are still way too young!).

Save all that for adulthood!

If you do everything before reaching your twentieth birthday, what else do you have left to look forward to?

Nothing much, I`d say!

In conclusion, whether you`re 25, 30, 35 or 40, it doesn`t really matter AS LONG AS YOU ARE A MATURE, HAPPY, FULFILLED AND EMOTIONALLY & FINANCIALLY STABLE A D U L T!!!

Is that in any way unclear?

I hope my answer cleared out a few cobwebs!

Good luck to you & Happy Holidays!

Answer 3

I don't think there's a specific age for starting a family. As long as you're physically, financially, mentally and emotionally ready to have one, then go ahead. Starting a family is not a joke, so you have to be prepared for everything that's going to happen. It will be a rollercoaster ride. And you're just going to have to take it slow too. If you're thinking of starting a family, then goodluck. Just hope for the best.

Answer 4

take this from my mistakes I started a family at 19 and it has been a long crawl to get where I am today..sooo

I will suggest that you go to college. After college get a job. Save up some money, gain job experice, get your car, pay your school bill, then with lots of money in the bank properly invested. You can start a family.. Goal time 27 to 28..

Answer 5

its not about age, its whether or not you have a stable living situation. do you own a house, do you have a savings account? are you able to provide the best life for your children? get those first or atleast start on those things. try to have a family before 35 though. giving birth too late in life could carry some serious birth defects like downs syndrome.

Answer 6

When you are married to someone whom you trust and can depend on, who is mature.
You need to be mature.
You don't have to be done with school, you don't have to have a house, you don't have to be completely out of debt, or even be able to "afford" the child completely, but at least be firmly on the way there first.
Honestly I think each couple should discuss this and "feel" which is best for the couple. You know it when it's right and if it comes sooner by "accident" then welcome it joyfully.

Answer 7

I wanted to be married by 25 and get settled and have a child before I am 30. Thankfully, I am 28 and have a 10-month old daughter whom I really love.

Answer 8

if we will follow the age rule of the church, it will be 21..
but age doesnt matter, as long as you are emotionally, spiritually, mentally, physically and financially ready.
its not your age that will bring you into happy family but your love and your trust with each other.

Answer 9

hum like 23 and up, but their is no age to starting a family.... U start it when u are ready and u can surpport the family.

Answer 10

Depends. Best to stand on feet be independent, to be responsible, to make a happy family.