Page 2 | What class are you based on the mumsnet theory of the age you had your first child?

IdaGlossop · 08/12/2025 14:19

Aristocratic, but actually middle-middle, I would say.

turkeyboots · 08/12/2025 14:16

Working class apparently. At 28 I was ten years older or 10 years younger than all the other new mums anyway.

Witchcraftandhokum · 08/12/2025 14:13

I don't have any and I'm in my 50's so I'm clearly royalty

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!

YankSplaining · 08/12/2025 14:02

777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 13:14

According to some on mumsnet a true upper class parent would force their child to have an abortion. There would be zero chance of this not working even if said teenager didn’t want an abortion and was 19.

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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.

EmotionallyWeird · 08/12/2025 13:59

Middle class - and I am in fact middle class according to my occupation. But we'd been trying since I was 27.

1990thatsme · 08/12/2025 13:59

Well I am titled aristocracy and had my first in my early twenties. Massive over generalisation.

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.

hazelnutvanillalatte · 08/12/2025 13:56

Working class
And yes, this was the opinion of a few people at the time

SaintlyLady · 08/12/2025 13:55

SaintlyLady · 08/12/2025 13:54

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

Sorry ignore this post - didn’t read full OP

SaintlyLady · 08/12/2025 13:54

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

ResusciAnnie · 08/12/2025 13:52

Working. Was a 25 year old married homeowner in London 🤷‍♀️ 10 years ago. MN is mental.

SaintlyLady · 08/12/2025 13:52

My mum was part of the aristocracy then 😭

I was born into the aristocracy !! 🤣

Dweetfidilove · 08/12/2025 13:42

777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 13:14

According to some on mumsnet a true upper class parent would force their child to have an abortion. There would be zero chance of this not working even if said teenager didn’t want an abortion and was 19.

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Aaahhh! I wonder if MN parent would spike their drink if the child refuses. Presumably the more they insist, the more the child rebels.
Unless they threaten to disinherit them 🤔.
Fascinating stuff.

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777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 13:30

Glowingup · 08/12/2025 13:17

How much of a goady twat are you based on the following criteria:

A massive one - starts judgy poll joking about when women have kids
Not - doesn’t start said poll

It’s not that deep who would I be judging anyway I’m underclass

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Glowingup · 08/12/2025 13:17

How much of a goady twat are you based on the following criteria:

A massive one - starts judgy poll joking about when women have kids
Not - doesn’t start said poll

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777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 13:14

Dweetfidilove · 08/12/2025 13:00

Does an aristocratic child lose their class status if there's a teenage pregnancy?

According to some on mumsnet a true upper class parent would force their child to have an abortion. There would be zero chance of this not working even if said teenager didn’t want an abortion and was 19.

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TheLemonLemur · 08/12/2025 13:10

Middle but a month earlier would have been working class

MarymaryquiteC · 08/12/2025 13:03

777holyandsinless · 08/12/2025 12:49

True one of my grandmas also had her first at 16 back in the 60s no one would of considered her underclass (obviously she was also married)

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But then the use of 'would of' is also a class indicator according to MN.

MarymaryquiteC · 08/12/2025 13:01

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

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

Dweetfidilove · 08/12/2025 13:00

Does an aristocratic child lose their class status if there's a teenage pregnancy?

Prelim · 08/12/2025 12:59

bookworm14 · 08/12/2025 12:57

Why would the aristocracy have their first child in their 40s?

It’s a joke. It alludes to the common trope that older mothers are more educated and wealthier, you could swap it for upper class, or professional class.

The OP only meant it lightheartedly.

teaandtoastwouldbenice · 08/12/2025 12:59

27 and 30 - parents middle class wannabes- poverty to Oxford educated, husband underclass. Who knows what I am. I work, I mother.

bookworm14 · 08/12/2025 12:57

Why would the aristocracy have their first child in their 40s?

patooties · 08/12/2025 12:56

Working class - but I’m not sure I could have had less of a middle class upbringing if I had tried!