Comments on: Does Having Kids Earlier Save Money?

By: Baby preparations and weekend links — The Baglady

Baby preparations and weekend links — The Baglady — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:38:46 +0000

[...] I am 26 now and I think I am at a good stage in my life to have a kid. I actually wrote a post here about the financial advantages of having children at a younger age and I still believe in what I wrote. I have also found that culture and customs also influence [...]

By: Alicia Decogorea

Alicia Decogorea — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:51:55 +0000

Sorry,sweetie.Didn’t mean to offend your in-laws It’s really not just the kids thing,most of the adults I know who had children very young also kind of let themselves go in all the commotion.You know, by not eating very healthy or having very much time to excersize.They also had three or more children in a pretty short amount of time.Not just one and then four years later one more.Also, a plethora of them smoked….

PS. I think twenty-five is actually the perfect age to start. I was just trying to stress that nineteen or twenty seems too young these days. Times ARE different from twenty to thirty years ago. In those days people were easily coming from families with eight children, and now a days people gasp when someone gives birth to more than three.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:44:40 +0000

um..my in-laws are NOT looking like 60 year olds. they made enough money to send their kids to private schools and still got them out at the age of 45/46. Right now my hubby and I are both 25 so we are not extremely young or anything so I think having our kid(s) before we’re too old is a good idea.

By: Alicia Decogorea

Alicia Decogorea — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:56:10 +0000

Age is NOT a good factor to tell when someone should have children. People should have children when they are emotionally AND FINANCIALLY stable and prepared. Curt said “have them as early as you can”.Nooooo…….let’s not. There are already too many young mothers living off the government as there is. Also, one may have the children out of the house at the age of 45, but THEIR youth was spent struggling with money because of their small amount of income and having that huge amount of responsibility that comes with children just a mere two or so years after they were basically children themselves. Plus,it is true, when there is children there is stress,anxiety,and worry.Stress,anxiety,and worry age people. SO…..in retrospect….the fourty five year old empty nester may very well look and feel sixty years old. Just a thought.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:34:11 +0000

I must be completely biased, being 19 and having a 2 year-old, but I am all for having children while you’re young (not necessarily as young as I) I feel like i will be able to relate to my kids better, and enjoy their childhood more due to my age. Sure, money’s tight, but what is money, really, compared to the joy of motherhood? nada. And I saw someone mentioned all of the expensive stuff, cribs, clothes, etc. You wouldn’t believe how fast kids grow out of that stuff, and there’s always a mommy right behind them trying to pass it off. I know my mother hated the idea of me taking other people’s baby stuff, that was in perfectly good shape. Hardly used. Maybe if I had my son 10 or 20 years later, I would have felt the same, and spent tons of money on stuff that we only used for a few months….