I’m kinda surprised my age - late 20s - is lower than so many. But in retrospect, we were among the first of our friends to spawn.
40.1
A son, a daughter, a vasectomy.
(Guys, do it, it is not really painfull. Just a bit weird)
37.005
2 Daughters. about 20 years ago
4 children, my average age was 25.5
Your decimal thing throws me, but I was about 34 years, 10 months old when my only child was born.
I’ve cloned one type of plant (variegated Manihot esculenta) over 150 times through cuttings. So that’s a pretty big generation.
Averaging three - 21.7 years.
31.79 years average (2 kids)
The SDMB is not a random selection of the general population.
No interest in adding my number to this exercise of unclear purpose and in not counting my youngest who is adopted, but for my social peer group we were the first to start at 25 and the last to be adding to our family with that youngest, number four, at 43. Zero grandkids yet.
I do think culturally that higher educated young adults are starting significantly later now. Even if many of my peers are ahead on the grandkid thing. And many fewer teen parents in all strata.
Two Lendervedder offspring. I was an average of 35.49 when they were born. I’m 48 now and done spawning.
One son, I was 29.53 when he was born. I had a tubal ligation a few years later, so def no more kids
So what do you mean by “born naturally”?
I’m starting to regret posting my info, because, yeah, that.
You can always just write the fraction and make the OP do the math: 34 and 10/12. It’s something like 34.83 if you divide it out.
I expect that @slicedalone’s issue is that the reason for gathering the data is to learn the age of the birth parents. It’s about the biological idea of generations.
If an adoptive parent knows the age of the bio-parents at the adoptee’s birth and could supply that number, it would be first class data. But supplying their own age at the adopted child’s birthdate is not a relevant bit of info.
I know I don’t know whether it’s common for adoptive parents to know the ages of the bio-parents. My uninformed guess is that it’s rare.
Just so.
And I don’t want to adjudicate all sorts of situations where adoptive parents present their cases for knowing the age of one biological parent and can guess at the age of the other, and why I accepted one’s case but not the other’s, etc., and what’s wrong with me that I can’t see the justice of one case…
As I keep insisting, no offense intended. Just trying to keep things simple here.
Three children.
My average age was 39.1
My Mom had me when she was 19. That was actually on the high end of some relatives, and in my community was not that uncommon.
When I moved to the East Coast and started meeting academic folks, I was amazed by how few were married and had children, or who considered us “young” to get married at age 23.
I had my son at age 37, and one of the last conversations I had with my mother was a frantic phone call immediately after my son was born, saying, “How the hell did you do this as a college student?!”
One child, 30.008 years.
16.5 yrs (just stopped by to bend the curve!)
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(You are mistaken. Background info on birth parents is more thorough than you’re imagining.
Unless you’re adopting a foundling, this info is most assuredly conveyed to potential adopters.)