42 percent of the 2,200 women surveyed by ForbesWoman.com and TheBump.com agree that the best age to have the first child is between 25 and 29 years old.
On the other hand, 34 percent said it was better to have it between the ages of 30 and 34, while 17 percent said that there is no better age than another to have children and the remaining 4 percent think it is preferable to be mother between 21 and 24 years old.
I wonder if the survey would yield similar results if it were done in Spain, where the average maternity age is 29.3 years and 30% of women have their first child after 35 years.
What prevails most women to decide the age at which they will become mothers? A decisive factor for the women surveyed is the employment and economic situation, so they have decided that the ideal age to have their first child is between 25 and 29, when it is assumed that there is a certain stability to face the new role of mothers (at least in the United States where the survey was conducted).
If I had been one of the respondents I would be part of the majority, in fact I had my first daughter at 29 and I already thought I was taking it. But the reason, rather than labor and economic stability, would be a biological issue. Because while only 20% of respondents gave importance to the theme of the "biological clock", it is known that the first major decline in fertility occurs after 30 years and increases significantly from 35 years.
On the other hand, the majority of women who were mothers for the first time between the ages of 35 and 39 confessed that they would have liked to be before.
And you, what do you think is the best age to have the first child? The bug has bitten me, so I promise to do a survey on the blog to have first-hand data.
