When did it start?

[Mordecai]

When did your peer group start birthing?

[jeth]

Oh good god, the first one gave birth mere days after her fourteenth birthday. It was a girl I went to junior high with. She started a chain reaction and I think we had something like twenty babies born to our class alone by graduation. Crazy.

Of my friends/acquaintances with kids, most seem to have had children around nineteen. I have one who had her daughter much younger, and a few waited until at least their mid-twenties to get started. But yeah, nineteen seems like the average age.

Thank goodness I made it through that year. Alkjalkjalkaj.j

[Fox in Socks]

14th1/!?!? holy embryo batman! [blue] most of my freinds started about age 25ish. luckily a few of us are still free. ;K

[iciclespark]

My high school was strange.... either that or adept with condoms (see? Sex ed in grade nine WORKS). The first knocked up, gonna give birth in my class was 17 I think, which could have been worse.

[Boomer #8]

None of my closest friends has children. *phew*

But I know girls that started at 20-24.

[Amy!]

Everyone I know that has kids had them really young. I have a cousin that had two before she was 18. I have several friends that were between 18-22 and they've all had at least one abortion since.

My high school had it's own daycare. I can't decide if that is more horrifying than having a rodeo team or not.l

[Kari]

The first person I knew to have a child was when I was 15 and she was 17, my friend's older sister. It's scary that the kid is almost 10 now. A LOT of my friends back home are having kids. Scurry.

[katz]

The first was a girl who pretty much had her world set up and ready to be handed to her on a silver plate. She was the star child of the school and quite possibly the town for the opportunities she was going to take once we graduated. She was 4 months pregnant by a 32 year old man when we walked for our diplomas. She now has SIX daughters. She'll be 29 in May.

The rest of my peer group started having kids for the most part around 22-24.

[six50eight]

None of my closest friends have any kids. My best friend and her husband have been married for 3 years now and last year she got pregnant, unplanned. She was freaking out at first but then started to get use to the idea. She was just starting to accept it when she had a miscarrage. It was very sad and traumatic for her. Even though she didn't want to have children and it was totally unplanned, it was still very hard for her. They would have been the first of my friends to have kids.

Recently I've heard other friends talk about having children. There are these two couples who are wanting to get pregnant at the same time because they think it would be so omgcool to have kids at the same time. :r Unfortunately, these are the types of people who need to be steralized and banned from procreating.

[Alex]

All my friends are gay.

Actually a lot of my female friends are also in the theater, so many are childfree. Some writer friends of mine have kids, but they're normal people with lives and they read, see movies and have intelligent things to add to conversations.

(I actually don't know any scary parent types).

[half1113]

I had a friend hide her pregnancy in 10th grade. She was going to give the baby up but at the last minute changed her mind and kept her. What's freaking is her daughter is now 15. Our preacher's daughter got pregnant our junior or senior year I can't remember for sure. The rest started at 19-21.

[Rinky vs.4.0]

My peer group keeps changing anyway as I move around and about.

But! There was one girl in my year at high school, top group, should have gone on to university etc. Got knocked-up by the village idiot (local lad who regularly got arrested for stealing sacks of potatoes and thing) at sixteen and had four kids by eighteen (one set of twins + two other kids). But she was a total anomaly. It wasn't even a semi-regular occurence for girls to get pregnant at my school in the eighties.

The people I knew from college, well, some of them like me, are childfree, and the ones who spawned did so around 30 or in one case, 40.

[HangTenHoney]

I went to the "better" schools in San Antonio, so I never knew of any girls who got pregnant so young. Most went on to college and such, and are still childless.

The only person my age that I know of who has a baby is my step-sister. She got married October of 2004, and got pregnant on her honeymoon. Way to set the precedent for my honeymoon. Now I can't get my mom to leave me alone about when I'm starting a family. :r I keep telling everyone, "We have dogs. Just enjoy them, because that's all you're getting, for as far as you know."

[jenniferblaufrau]

I guess it was around my early- to mid-20s that friends of any significance had kids. One of my close friends (I count two or three people truly close) is pregnant now, and I'm actually very excited for her. She and her husband are nontraditional world traveler types (they met in Thailand learning to be scuba diving instructors), and she lives in a fabulous Pippi Longstocking kind of house in the Swedish countryside (her husband is Swedish). It was interesting--when she told me the news, it felt very personal. I suppose she's the most "like me" friend who's become pregnant, and I felt some of her excitement and trepidation vicariously, I suppose. I don't really see it as a threat or danger to our friendship because my friends live all over the world and I only see them from time to time anyway, so I don't think this will change the frequency of our visits, really.

[nirak]

They're all starting now... I'm 26 and they're within a few years of me, so it's about right.

Except one friend that's my age and has 3 kids- oldest is 12. Yips!

[jeth]

14th1/!?!? holy embryo batman! [blue] most of my freinds started about age 25ish. luckily a few of us are still free. ;K

Yeah. She wasn't a friend of mine at all, she was just the first to get knocked up in our class. We had four more girls get pregnant our freshman year, a few more our sophomore year (along with a few fathers starting to get into the mix) and then we had a boatload of pregnancies our junior and senior year (and by that point, there were girls who had already had multiple abortions). Our school ranked pretty high for statewide teen pregnancy rates. We didn't have a daycare facility, but more than a few times I saw the teenage mothers bringing their babies and toddlers to school and leaving them in the Home Ec department. I think the point was to use live children in childcare demonstrations, but it seemed an awful lot like free babysitting to me.

[KV]

I remember my boyfriend in high school talking about us getting married after we graduate college and having children. I was like...uhhhhh yeah...no. I broke up with him when he graduated high school because I knew that we totally wanted different things even though we genuinely loved each other. Turns out he met someone in college, married her and she got pregnant at 22 years old. I am 35 and he is 36. They now have five children. Sometimes I do miss him because we had good times and he is such a good person, but holy shit am I glad I did not stick around with him because I might want a kid someday, but I do NOT want five...or even two for that matter. Egads!

xo
Rachel

[queensiefaerie]

My peer group keeps changing anyway as I move around and about.

^ Same here . I' don't stay in one place for too long.
But lets see:
In high school:
I went to 3: The First one I think there were about 3 girls preggers
The Second School: not to sure
The Last School: In my senior class, one girl. I had her and her "Peer Group" in my Eco/Government class and the class was half lesson, half talk about So & So's bump....
[post81]

But After high school...I have one friend from where I use to work, finally get pregnant and get married...whole 9 yards, after being kind of a trouble maker girl.

Through the glories that is myspace, you can psee what people are up to now with out being their friend ( I'm talking about aquantences from back in the day)
A few have babies....--->Blah...is all I have to say!

[by the woods]

About 3 years ago my friends started having babies. I've got quite the 'mommy club' going on. They're all stay at home moms and have play group twice a week. Some of them have already had their second child. To give them credit they always do try and talk about adult things as well as their children. It's just hard to get together with them as they never have a babysitter.