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Starting a Family

When is the right time to start a family? Do you wait until you are more financially secure, more settled in your career or older and wiser? It really is down to individual preference, there is no right or wrong time to start your family. Some people will want to climb their career ladder prior to thinking of starting their family, whilst others will prefer to have their children at an early age, thus still being young enough to return to their career when the children are older. The advantages of having children younger means you have more energy to run around with them as toddlers whereas as you get older yourself you do tend to have more wisdom and patience to deal with young children.

With regard to the financial side, most people live to what they earn and therefore makes little difference to the timing of having your first child.

Statistics show that the average age of having your first child for a woman is much younger than a man, being 25-30 years for a woman and 30-35 for a man. These are only guides that Supa Swap suggest, everyone is in a different and unique situation, and depends on the family involved.

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0 #2 Lizzie 2010-10-01 13:53
I think the right time is down to the individual couple, we found that having children in our twenties the best for the children,so when you are in your forties the children have lots in common with yourselves and can enjoy doing things together.
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0 #1 Val 2010-09-25 10:38
I had children in my early twenties and now I´m in my mid forties and the children are all adults and I am still young enough to enjoy life and to join in with activities with my children. Personally, I feel it was best to have them younger.
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