2007-01-12 20:04:34 · 11 answers · asked by amber m 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
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2007-01-12 20:08:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
That depends on point of view. There are 3 to choose from:
Pysical ability, public acceptance, and affordability.
For hundreds of millenia the human body has been adapting to life as a member of a tribe, a small community of about 20 or 30 people living in harmony off the land. As such, the female body develops the ability to grow offspring at a very early age, anatomically speaking about age 8 or 9. However, at the peak of hormonal fertility at between 12 and 16, the female reporductive organs go into overdrive, which we call teen puberty.
Over the last 2 millenia, with rapidly growing population and cultural movements away from tribes and into cities, family units became smaller and more self-dependant or spouse-dependant mothers became common place. Even grandparents began renouncing long traditional responsiilities. This was also catalyzed by the growth of Catholicism, which influenced governments into creating minimum legal age laws for sexual relations, pregnancy and so on, on the belief they would be unable to support the child. Society sees the acceptable age for pregnancy to be between 18 and 28, given that the reporductive organs are usually fully functional at this age.
After 30, a family unit often develops wealth and prosperity compared to what they had in their early 20s, so usually the growth of a child is an acceptable financial burden. Often people will only begin attempting to get pregnant after 35, right through to 55 when fertility levels are already dropping by half or more every decade.
So, I suppose the only clearcut answer I can give you is to get pregnant between the age of 8 and 55 (between when the body begins to be capable of it, and when it stops being capable of it) if you really want to at all. I wish I could help more, but this is one of the more obvious major screwups of the 21st century's social, religious, cultural, economic and legal climate.
2007-01-13 04:33:45 · answer #2 · answered by Bawn Nyntyn Aytetu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no RIGHT age to have a baby. There are only WRONG ages to have a baby.
It's a bad idea, and I know I'll get shouted down for this, to have a baby when you're aproaching the menopause. Your eggs are going off and your baby is more liekly to have problems.
Conversly, a woman should NOT have a baby before she's 18, and I'd say 20 to be on the safe side. Your body should be fully grown, and that includes your brain.
Biologically, your mid 20's is where a woman is most firtile and when it considers itself ready.
Of course, it most liekly isn't. You REALLY, REALLY, REALLY do NOT want to have a baby before you're financially settled. Comfortable, able to afford it. And before you're ready to be at the beck and call of a small screaming human who throws up on people and goes to the toilet in their pants, nasty, runny, smelly toilet, 24/7.
Men and women should, then, wait until... as said... about 30. When you've lived a little. When you've got things out of you system. When you arn't oing to resent the screaming bundle of joy, and you can afford it too.
It's a huge responsability. One that drives many, many people slightly crazy. That's why parents are habitually embarrasing and slightly evil. Revenge.
... anyway... *wonders off*
2007-01-13 04:34:43 · answer #3 · answered by erynnsilver 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To have the healthiest baby, early 20's, because that is the prime of your life. But younger parents are also less experienced in raising a child with the full knowledge concerning brain and coordination developement. You should consult a doctor and a child psychologist or others in the professional field and then weigh the odds
2007-01-13 04:41:28 · answer #4 · answered by Robert 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whenever they're financially capable of it. A kid is an 18 year commitment at minimum and they should be prepared for that. It's not so much a matter of a age, but a matter of financial readiness.
2007-01-13 04:22:36 · answer #5 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dependz wit were u r frm..i wanna have a baby in 3 yrz time wen im 20
2007-01-13 04:18:53 · answer #6 · answered by spartan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you are ready to have a baby. I mean really ready to have a baby, you know what i mean those of you that have babies.
2007-01-13 05:19:51 · answer #7 · answered by dank2go 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bout 20. Or whenever you can afford it.
2007-01-13 04:11:22 · answer #8 · answered by Dallas L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no one should be eligible for marriage or babies till they hit at least 30
2007-01-13 04:09:23 · answer #9 · answered by el chavo 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When your financially capable and mentally mature.
2007-01-13 15:36:57 · answer #10 · answered by Countess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋