Dakota Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 (edited) Behold, children are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them! ~ Psalm 127:3-5 Amen! I'm with Joe and Chris on this. My parents were 45 when I graduated at 17; I'll be 20 in a few weeks. Personally, I can't see myself getting married at age 25 like my parents; things are starting to come together, Lord willing, and it will probably be a lot sooner than that (again, Lord willing of course). As far as kids go, I'm an only child and always wanted siblings. I want as many as God sees fit because children are a blessing from Him. Only thing I'm afraid of is passing on my heart problems to one of my children; I've been on the child end of things but never the parent end and that scares me! Dakota Edited June 21, 2010 by Dakota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnf Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 Might seem trite to say, but my wife and I always put it in the hands of the Lord. Never tried, never not tried and we ended up with 4. We'd be Duggers if we did that. Both of our kids were accidents. We never actively tried to have kids. My wife was 29 when we had our daughter and 38 with our son. She got her tubes tied when he was born. Unless the fallopian tube fairy comes, we're done. My wife's mother had her when she was 43, my mom had me when she was 24. There are advantages with both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALAN Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 im the only one in my family with out kids got 2 sisters sister 1 has 2 boys and a girl both boys are out of school 1 joined the marines 1 is going to college her daughter has 2 more years of school left shes soph in high school and my sister is 4 years older then me im 40..sister 2 has 2 boys which both have good full time jobs one is married has a kid theres not much age difference between the boys oldest is 22 19 is the youngest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layin on the smackdown Posted December 28, 2010 Report Share Posted December 28, 2010 Im guessing that you are asking what "everyone's" cut off age is of having kids...Im gonna take this where i personally feel it...Im 30, i'll be 31 in February, and i wish i had kids now. However, we cannot financially do it at this time. We got married in June of this year with high expectations of the good life, (after being together 5 1/2 years, having good jobs and our own house) and unfortunately, we have been dealt the lesser hand...There have been many hardships following our marriage, not regarding our marriage, but more or less regarding our financial situation....And we have decided to have my wife finish her degree now, rather than having kids now and wishing she finished later...not to mention, there is no way i could provide for a child with my current situation... Many will say, "you can never afford a child, but you have them any way", which is true for most, but there is a difference in being able to afford, and being able to provide... When the time is right, which again, many will say there is no "right time", it will happen, or you will make it happen...However, in my mind, seeing as i don't have any kids yet, my cutoff is going to be 35...If our lives aren't where i want them to be by then, i will consider myself a major failure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted December 29, 2010 Report Share Posted December 29, 2010 We waited. We had our first when I was 29. When our youngest graduates I will be 50 so not too terribly late but it is pretty late for this area. Most people that get married out of highschool have kids by 21 - 23. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted December 29, 2010 Report Share Posted December 29, 2010 (edited) The Bible says children are a blessing..why would you want to cut off a blessing? When I hear someone give age as a factor, it smacks of selfishness to me..makes me wonder what the Lord woulda said if Sara and Abraham woulda said..we're too old to have a kid at 90.. Edited December 30, 2010 by Mathews XT Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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