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

[777holyandsinless]

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

Middle

Underclass but then I got a PhD and the son I had at 17 is set to go to LSE so I did better than most.

working class. Which is correct. I am.

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.

Working.

I was 21. No regrets.

Aristocracy (just). Really, really not. Middle of middle I'd say.

Classic aristocrat here! I tick all the Mumsnet boxes, north London, post grad degrees, work full time, etc. But, I do answer the front door, so maybe not all the boxes!

Well I am definitely aristocratic and I had my dd at 22. 😄🙄

What a load of twaddle. I have no idea what class I am. I think the classes are more fluid now than they ever were before.

Middle.

I'm not at all middle class.🙈

25 so working class.

The time was right. I'm now approaching 40 parenting teens not babies and I wonder how new mums in their 40s have the energy for it but they obviously do. And its their choice.

Middle - which I think is correct based on MN class definitions - both DH and I have degrees work in professional roles at a mid level, own our own home (mortgage), children in state school with lots of extra curricular. However both of us grew up working class, and our parents as ?underclass.

According to this metric I’m working class, had DC at 28. I am very much middle class 😁dreadfully so, in fact.

How does working full time make you an aristocrat?

Middle which is incorrect. I'm from a working class family but was the youngest parent of my generation within the family to have a child at 35. My siblings/cousins were all 40+.
We were just too busy having fun to settle down! Whereas my boomer mother had completed her family at 24!
The MN theory is full of holes!

Underclass, but I am solid middle for what it is worth. Degrees and own home etc.

Surely this is one of the things where the aristocracy is the same as the working class, albeit for different reasons? Middle class professionals are more likely to wait until they have finished their education and established careers, but the nobility care more about succession so are more likely to prioritise children.

Aristocracy at 40+ is way out. Typically female members of the aristocracy would have children at a younger age.

I had one at 22, one at 34 and one at 41.

So by my first, working class, but maybe I worked my way up?

I didn’t. I was far more well off at 22 than I was with the other two.

Middle class... babies in my 30's. But I think I am middle class ish...

Nearly every day there is some mention of "class" on this site. In Scotland most of us could not care less about what others deem them to be.
It's a wee bit sad tbh and classless 😂

working class according to your ages.

I was (before disability) a teacher and dh is a GP, so this is very wrong! I was 29 when I had dd1!

Totally agree with @BarnacleBeasleyby the OPs criteria I am Middle Class which is pretty accurate. Followed the sensible middle class path of university and then establishing a career before having children in my 30s. Some aristocratic people I know haven’t had to worry about establishing a career and getting on the housing ladder and so had children pretty young. It does vary though, not all aristos necessarily have much cash these days so behave more like the middle classes. People having children much later like the Ramsays or Naomi Campbell are possibly more likely to be self made successes who have devoted the early lives to achieving that success and having the funds to pay for whatever fertility support they may need.

Solidly working.

IRL I would say I’m middle class (lower end).

Money hasn’t really been an issue throughout my life but abuse/alcoholism/neglect has.

Working class but upgraded to aristocracy by my 3rd 😀

Underclass, as had first dc aged 19, which is accurate as I raised him on benefits in a council flat. But I'm in my 40s now and have 7 figures in investments and have my younger dcs at private school and we live in a big London house. As it's not money that defines class however, it appears my class is unchanged.