On (1), another consideration you don’t mention is that having kids earlier means more years of overlap with your kids and, potentially, grandkids: you’d get to see more of their lives, which is something people usually find pretty rewarding.
Jeff—yes! I think that effect is actually more important than the concerns that people often have about whether they’ll be too tired to be good parents in their 40s or 50s. If people stay in good physical shape, it’s honestly not that hard to have the energy for parenting in middle age (speaking as a 57-year-old with a baby).
However, I’ll be 75 when my baby graduates high school, and maybe 83 by the time she has kids of her own.
Hopefully longevity interventions and regenerative medicine will help us all live long enough to meet our great-great-great-grandkids. But until then, having kids younger means you’ll get to spend a much higher proportion of life enjoying their company, and being around for future grandkids.
On (1), another consideration you don’t mention is that having kids earlier means more years of overlap with your kids and, potentially, grandkids: you’d get to see more of their lives, which is something people usually find pretty rewarding.
Jeff—yes! I think that effect is actually more important than the concerns that people often have about whether they’ll be too tired to be good parents in their 40s or 50s. If people stay in good physical shape, it’s honestly not that hard to have the energy for parenting in middle age (speaking as a 57-year-old with a baby).
However, I’ll be 75 when my baby graduates high school, and maybe 83 by the time she has kids of her own.
Hopefully longevity interventions and regenerative medicine will help us all live long enough to meet our great-great-great-grandkids. But until then, having kids younger means you’ll get to spend a much higher proportion of life enjoying their company, and being around for future grandkids.