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How old is your age group? I noticed the same thing among my friends, but then also noticed they all didn't start having kids until mid-30s. It turns out career-oriented women are choosing to start having kids much later in their lives than in previous decades, which is definitely a compounding factor.

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Late 20s to early 30s mostly. Some have been trying for years though.

As point of comparison - mean age of first birth for a woman in 1970 was 21.4.

In 2017 it was 26.8. In the kinds of places people on this site usually hail from, it was near 30. (MA being oldest, at 29.3)

Being quite a few years older than when people typically had kids a generation ago, is probably going to result in some differences in how easy it is.

Not saying that's a full explanation either, but it's likely at least part of it.

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