What class are you based on the mumsnet theory of the age you had your first child?

Mistyglade · 09/12/2025 10:44

Middle which I actually find offensive.

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777holyandsinless · 09/12/2025 10:25

herbalteabag · 09/12/2025 10:15

This is nonsense for lots of reasons, but definitely because the average age of birth has changed over the decades. MIL had a child at 38 and that was deemed extremely old at the time. Now it doesn't at all.

True I guess it’s just meant to be for people who had children in the last ten or twenty years. My grandma also had her first child at 16 (married) and no one would have considered her underclass back then. People just got on with it back then

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herbalteabag · 09/12/2025 10:15

This is nonsense for lots of reasons, but definitely because the average age of birth has changed over the decades. MIL had a child at 38 and that was deemed extremely old at the time. Now it doesn't at all.

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777holyandsinless · 09/12/2025 10:12

SaintlyLady · 09/12/2025 07:04

Haha good question !!!!

I think men in their 70s/80s can be good fathers if they look after their health etc as people often live now until over 90 - especially if they’ve not smoked or drank excessively but yes !! Very good question 🤣

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I’d say emperor class but the only one I know behaves just like a scruffy wet dog smelling boot 🤣

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SaintlyLady · 09/12/2025 07:04

777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 16:16

What class are we putting the old perverts who father children in their 70/80s as?

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Haha good question !!!!

I think men in their 70s/80s can be good fathers if they look after their health etc as people often live now until over 90 - especially if they’ve not smoked or drank excessively but yes !! Very good question 🤣

YankSplaining · 08/12/2025 22:31

777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 16:13

Yes I’ve seen a thread like that and the judgement towards the parent who isn’t capable of forcing their daughter to have an abortion I think those posters don’t realise they’re just lucky they didn’t have someone like me as their daughter my mum “wasn’t putting up with it” either and kicked me out at 16 still wasn’t enough to make me have an abortion.

I don’t think it’s legal to force a 16/17 to have an abortion and definitely not an 18/19 year old. Although they do seem to genuinely think because they believe they’re high class that means their daughter couldn’t possibly get pregnant before a respectable age

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Jesus Christ, I would hope it’s not legal to force anyone to have an abortion. 😱

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777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 19:45

BitOfAWeirdo · 08/12/2025 17:47

I'm 51 and childfree.

Does that make me royalty?

If you don’t have children you’ll need to consult the other threads to find out what class you are. Owning a bookshelf apparently makes you middle class but preferring football to rugby makes you working class. You’ll also have to measure your tv.

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BitOfAWeirdo · 08/12/2025 17:47

I'm 51 and childfree.

Does that make me royalty?

KrystalStubbs · 08/12/2025 17:35

onlyoneoftheregimentinstep · 08/12/2025 10:36

I think this has changed over time. I had my first at 28, but that was nearly 50 years ago and was considered old to be starting a family. Definitely consider myself middle.

Quite. The late Queen had two children by the time she was 25. Hardly working class!

Makingadecision · 08/12/2025 17:33

I would be categorised as middle class (both parents university educated in professional jobs, I am university educated and have always been in professional roles) but the theory places me in working class. (I don’t care either way, just posting to say there’s a difference )

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777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 17:26

MarymaryquiteC · 08/12/2025 13:01

Jesus....I had to read that title 5 times, grammar!?!

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Always a grammar nazi

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TheRosesAreInBloom · 08/12/2025 17:04

777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 10:26

Just for fun.

40s= aristocracy
30s=middle class
20s=working class
10s=underclass

I always thought I was middle class until I discovered because I was 16 I am indeed underclass.

and I guess if you’re one of the few who became a mother in your 50s you are a queen

I was 27 for first, two in my 30s and 47 when I had my last…could I just be queen?

2old4thispoo · 08/12/2025 16:55

Underclass... 🙄

gogomomo2 · 08/12/2025 16:53

Well as I along with all my very middle class friends had kids in our 20’s this definitely doesn’t work. For me it was practical then

Allswellthatendswelll · 08/12/2025 16:47

mondaytosunday · 08/12/2025 14:09

Aristocracy. Though in reality i am firmly middle. And I don’t accept the premise as I do know some aristocratic people and the majority started their families in their 20s as married quite young. As did historically all the royal family, at least the women (the youngest at 13, the daughter of King Charles II). Modern royals women average age of first child is creeping up, Kate was 30, Meghan 37, though are they considered aristocracy if they just married in? Eugenie was also 30 and Beatrice 32 - hardly middle class!

Having to wait to have kids is surely terribly middle class and the upper classes can just have them whenever!

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777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 16:16

SaintlyLady · 08/12/2025 13:54

There MUST be some who had their first child in their 50s! You’re missing out a category!

What class are we putting the old perverts who father children in their 70/80s as?

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777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 16:13

YankSplaining · 08/12/2025 14:02

Mumsnet can have a really alarming attitude around coercing or forcing teenagers to have abortions. “DD16 is eight weeks pregnant and says she definitely does not want to terminate” - half of Mumsnet will insist it’s your responsibility as a mother to do everything short of forcing abortion pills down her throat.

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Yes I’ve seen a thread like that and the judgement towards the parent who isn’t capable of forcing their daughter to have an abortion I think those posters don’t realise they’re just lucky they didn’t have someone like me as their daughter my mum “wasn’t putting up with it” either and kicked me out at 16 still wasn’t enough to make me have an abortion.

I don’t think it’s legal to force a 16/17 to have an abortion and definitely not an 18/19 year old. Although they do seem to genuinely think because they believe they’re high class that means their daughter couldn’t possibly get pregnant before a respectable age

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Megapint · 08/12/2025 15:11

Underclass!. I was 19. Best thing that ever happened to me and I wouldn't change a thing.

stayok · 08/12/2025 14:51

Working class, although I grew up and remain incredibly privileged- ponies, private school etc. Not convinced this test works 🤔

inezname · 08/12/2025 14:49

Middle. 39 and knackered with a 4 year old - I cannot fathom how aristocrats do it in their 40s! Nope nope.

And yes I have a helper who comes to my house 4 days a week to run errands and to clean the home.

I'm still knackered.

Meadowfinch · 08/12/2025 14:48

According to that, I'm aristocracy, although I grew up in a FSM family without two pennies to rub together.

I just decided I would never inflict such a miserable childhood on my own child, so I waited until I had an established career, and had bought my home before having Ds.

He has had the childhood and comfort I didn't. He is a lot happier than I was. I'm satisfied with that.

Funnywonder · 08/12/2025 14:41

Aristocracy. Grew up in working class East Belfast. I’ve really gone up in the world by delaying motherhood for a few years🤣

TimSamandLulu · 08/12/2025 14:38

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 08/12/2025 13:58

That's a bonkers theory.

I come out as Working Class according to that theory. Nothing wrong with being working class but, by any other measure, I'm middle class. Privately educated, have a post Grad degree, work in a professional capacity.

But I had my first child a few months before my 30th Birthday.

Exactly the same here on every factor! I quite like saying I had my first baby in my 20s though, when actually I was only a couple of months away from turning 30.

Friendlyfart · 08/12/2025 14:27

Middle class - which is true.

JennyForeigner · 08/12/2025 14:20

Middle class, by a couple of weeks. If I hadn't had to be induced, I'd be an aristocrat.

Bloody NHS.