Right time to start a family

India
March 7, 2013 12:45pm CST
At which age and when do you feel ,you are ready and up for the challenge and awesome,prepared to take up the burden or go to the next level of life and how do you decide it?
12 responses
@marguicha (215504)
• Chile
8 Mar 13
It depends on so many things that I feel that each person has to have his individual answer to that. I started my family at 18 years of age. But my husband was financially independent and earning a very good salary so we started with a flat for ourselves and quickly moved to a house when our second baby was born. Many of the worst tasks of being a mother were done by a wonderful maid-nanny who helped me a lot. But probably I would have not started a family if I had had to live with my family or with my inlaws.
• China
8 Mar 13
being independent financially is a most important factor in deciding when to start a family. you are lucy to have a happy family at an early age. good days.
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
6 Apr 13
for me i think the right time to start a family is when you are ready for the responsibility fir being a husband/wife and being a parents of our child,another thing is when you already have good stability in work or income to raise a family.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
11 Mar 13
I would not really know what to say of this, I mean when one has a partner already, then they both can and will know if they are ready to settle down. We all can say that we want to get married at this time, say age of 25 but then there are many things that could happen and we might end up getting married earlier or much later than what we have set for ourselves. We can say average people marries at 25, but then the statistics might say too that this is changing now, and women and men are now marrying at a much later age due to many different reasons (personal reasons included.
@johndur (3052)
• Pasig, Philippines
13 Mar 13
If you think you can let a child go to elementary to college then i think it enough for you to get married.
@kprofgames (3091)
• United States
8 Mar 13
I don't think there is an age there. I think it's more you accomplished the goals you needed to, to feel secure in living. It all comes down to can you afford a child at this moment in your life. I know there are oopies and you roll with it, but if a person is planning on having a child it really all comes down to finances and are you secure in your income to raise that child.
• Romania
11 Mar 13
I know many friends who started a family sooner than they anticipated, so it depends. It's not a right time, but if you want to be prepared you should be sure you can raise properly your child, you really love your partner and want to share everything with him/her.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
7 Mar 13
There's no one age at which one is ready to start a family or any other life changing event. It's kind of like getting married - you are never ready but you just do it. If you wait for everything to be perfect, you'll never do it.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
7 Mar 13
I believe it depends on housing, work, feeling emotionally ready and energy levels. The lady should be eating a healthy diet, be taking prenatal vitamin pills and doing light exercise. I think that ages twenty one years onwards would be possible for some ladies. Some ladies might not yet be ready even when they are 30 years old. I think that is is best to have a first baby before age 30 years old. Sometimes pregnancy can be a surprise and the lady should get her life ready for her baby.
@dreamhome (558)
• India
8 Mar 13
I don't think there is any such specific age which can be said as the appropriate one to start a family. It all depends on how mature you are and how much capable you are to support a family.
• United States
7 Mar 13
I think you decide that when you are mature enough to want to bring children into your life and when you can afford them. You just know when the time is right. For me it was a longing to have a child.
@ShyBear88 (59284)
• Sterling, Virginia
7 Mar 13
I don't think anyone is very ready so there isn't really a good age. I got married at 21 was pregnant at 21 had my daughter at 22 found I was pregnant again at 23 and had my son before my 24th birthday both with in 18 months of each other. Wasn't ready for my daughter nor my son but I took on the challenge along with my husband with open arms.
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
7 Mar 13
I think that depend son alot of things. Age, jobs, housing, even time. Have you dicussed it with your mate there? How does she feel. is it time?