average/median ages for sex to childbirth

[feministransguy]

Over the past couple weeks I've had conversations about childbirth, coupling, and sex where we wondered how old people tend to be. The CDC's most recent 2002 study of 4,021,726 birth certificates concluded that the average age of mothers at the birth of their first child in 2002 was an all-time high of 25.1 years old. Teen pregnancies are down and

Comments

[mosno]

Wowsers! So it really is just me. *lol*

[feministransguy]

Yeah. I've known my personal sample is distorted by my own slowness and friends' delays for continued education, but it was good finally to look it up. I use historical versions of these kind of stats. in class lectures.

[mosno]

Well everyone's idea of the norm is formed on their own life's experiences. It's a human thing. But yes, very good to have actual stats for educational purposes.