My father was in his latish mid-30s, my mother had just turned 30.
By Indian standards for the day, they were considered “older” parents. But their first child died and they went through several years of infertility (and other stuff that was even worse) right after. They got pregnant with me a few months after my father recovered from a year-long partial paralyzation.
I never noticed any difference growing up because they’re both extremely energetic-I guess the only thing is that I can’t think back to a time when my parents weren’t established in their careers. They always had seniority, so I don’t remember them working like crazy or going to school or anything, the way some of my friends can.
When my parents first got together, Mom was 16 and Dad was 20. I told him he’s lucky this was back in the 70’s, or he’d probably be in jail for some CSC! They got married at 21 and 25, and had me (firstborn) at 28 and 32. Three years later they had my little brother.
My parents were 24 (Dad) and 23 (Mom) when I was born. They’re a little over 18 months apart in age. I’m the eldest of three; they were 27 and 25 for the middle child, and 31 and 30 for the youngest.
My mother is the twelfth of thirteen children. Her parents were about 23 and 18 when the eldest was born (I’m not exactly sure, but they were a little over five years apart in age), and about 49 and 44 at the birth of the youngest.
My father was 35 when I was born; my mother was 30. My father’s father was 35 when he was born. My mother had her first child at 18 and her last at 45.
Sampiro, I’d just like to put in a request for whatever summary you do of the data in this thread to be posted here. I’d also like to see how you interpret these ages and assorted extra facts in terms of your generational issues.
If you haven’t read it, there’s some useful (though debatable) exposition on that sort of thing in Generations (book) where their spans are more like 22 years, as mentioned in
The other hypotheses in the book are fascinating if not persuasive, since the “generations” that have come since their publication may or may not conform to their analysis of other previous generations and their attributes.
As you may have determined from threads like this that I have started, I like the summary concept and I am highly tempted to do something of my own with your data. But I will stifle that urge as long as you plan to give feedback on the contributions you’ve gotten.
Great thread, if it’s not obvious from these remarks and the great turnout you’ve had!
My mom was 25 and my dad was 44. Born in 1951 and 1932 respectively. My father was married before my mom and is closer to age to my grandpa than my mother.
My mom was 38 and my dad was 48. Born in 1941 and 1931, respectively. It’s my dad’s second marriage; I have an adoptive half brother who’s 17 years older than I am.
heh, heh - ditto! although my mom was 5 months older than my dad.
I was the second of four - my parents got a relatively late start 'cuz my mom had been married before and was a war widow (WWII) when she married my dad. She was 41 when my youngest sibling was born.
My mother was 29 when I was born January 13, 1980. She didn’t turn 30 until November of that year. My father was 23 at the time of my birth. He turned 24 2 months later.
As I’m sure you can tell, my parents had about 5.5 years between them.
Same here, except I am not the oldest, but the third of four. My dad jokes that he had his kids nine months and fifteen minutes apart, but he is exaggerating by a little.
My oldest sister was born in August. My older brother was born a year and a month later, in September. I came along in January, a year and four months later, and my sister in May the following year.
Generations are a funny thing–both of my parents have siblings who are 14-16 years older than they are, so I have first cousins who are 20 years older than I am. On my dad’s side of the family, my uncle’s grandson is only two years younger than me. Because of these gaps, we have several generations overlapping at various stages:
Grandmother E. -> Aunt H. -> Cousin E. -> His daughter, E.
At one point, we had an even crazier set up:
Great-great uncle A., who was the uncle to my grandmother E., my grandmother E., my uncle P., my cousin R., my cousin J.
I was born in 1957, my father in 1926, his father in 1890, and his father in 1849. So that’s 112 years for three generational steps, averaging 37 years. My mother, though, was only 17 years younger than her mother. My parents were 3 years apart.