iirc the current research suggests that having kids makes people less happy in general due to the tremendous stress. (The good news was that people in general were happiest at around age 70, which gives us all something to look forward to!).
My own observation is that older parents do better (again in general). More experience, more money, more practice at planning and juggling stuff, more time to watch other people have kids and see what works and what doesn't. That said, I know some people who had kids in their early twenties and coped fine, but they were all old-heads-on-young-shoulders types (rather like your good self in fact, tinyjo!).
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Date: February 2nd, 2005 04:46 pm (UTC)From:My own observation is that older parents do better (again in general). More experience, more money, more practice at planning and juggling stuff, more time to watch other people have kids and see what works and what doesn't. That said, I know some people who had kids in their early twenties and coped fine, but they were all old-heads-on-young-shoulders types (rather like your good self in fact,