Is 24 considered young to be a mum ?

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Or is this an average age?

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24 is normal.

It depends on your socioeconomic group. In some circles it's average, in some it's young.

It didn’t used to be, but I would say 24 is young nowadays. It doesn’t matter if you are a young mum though.

I’d say it’s fairly young tbh. I think it depends on your social circle but everyone I know was in their 30s before dc.

No it's not the average age. No it's not too young.

Pretty normal in my circles. Most of my friends were on their second by 24

No I don't think it makes you a young mum.

It’s young
its not necessarily too young- although ideally I wouldn’t love my daughters to be mums at 24.

Yes, very young in my world. A friend's DD got married last year at 25 and she was considered very young to get married. All the 22 to 30 year olds I know are working/studying/travelling/socialising. Not parenting.

I was the first of my friends to be a mum at 24. It didn't feel too young for me. Most of them followed suit within 2 or 3 years but a couple waited until mid-thirties. We're all mainly professionals such as teachers, nurses, HR etc. only one had a hugely high flying career and left it much later (early 40s).

In my circles it would be very young, I don't know anyone who had children before they were 30 because they were establishing careers after uni

To clarify, not that I don't think any of the other career paths I mentioned aren't successful but she knew her chosen path was to build her career first, uninterrupted by maternity leave/childcare constraints.

I had just given birth to my second at 24 and most around me had one at that age 😊

I had my first when I’d just turned 26 and I was the youngest in my NCT group by about 10 years. I had one other friend my age who was pregnant when I gave birth but none of friends had children. Even now a few years later only 1 other friend my age has a baby.

Now I have a few more mum friends local to me I’m still the youngest by several years, everyone else is over 30.

It just depends on the people you know. Most of my friends spent 3 or 4 years at uni followed by further professional training or a grad scheme that lasted several years. Most people I know want to buy a house before they have kids and that takes a few years too!

It's you get than average but that doesn't mean it is "too young". It isn't too young at all. It just depends on circumstances. I was quite a young 24 yo. I wasn't long out of university and wouldn't have been settled enough to have children. But I know people who had them at that sort of age who are great mums and very sorted.

*younger than average

I became a mum at 22 and was looked down upon. I think early 30s is ideal. Live life abit but not ancient like 40.

It's definitely young. 30 is the average nationally, I was 35 which isn't unusual in London.

I had my Dd at 23.
It's relatively young, but not ridiculously so.
Why does it matter at that age anyway?

According to this, the average age of first time mothers is 29.6

Have kids, settle down - UK Parliament

Some interesting commentary about how the average is little changed from 1938, having gone down during the 1960's and subsequently increased since then.

I was 25 when I had my first baby, looking back it feels very young to have a child. At the time it felt "normal", but I lived im a country where women are expected to settle down and have kids very young and not to have careers.

The average age to be a FTM in the UK is ~30. So no, it’s not average. It is young to be a FTM mum compared to the rest of the population.

Wow. I'll just get in my coffin.

You’ll get posters clamouring to tell you how none of their friends had so much as a pregnancy scare until they were 39.5 because they were too busy travelling and socialising and building careers. They’ll also tell you how immature they were at your age like it’s a badge of honour.

In reality, of course mid-20s isn’t terribly young to be pregnant.

Very unusual in my social circle. Everyone had kids between 34-42.