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What The Fark 5: I Can't Believe This Happened!

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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Ok that sounds like GD oak dale but you didn’t go to school there right?
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Given the school I went to (Robbinsdale Cooper), and the schools my friends went to (Totino Grace, Robbinsdale Armstrong, Benilde-St Margeret's), I'm surprised more pregnancies didn't happen. It was honestly a rarity. Of course, that could also be a generational thing, I don't know.
 
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The Rube said:
I think they are just waiting longer than past generations. Fewer 21, 22 year olds are having kids. It's more the 27, 28 year olds, once they get their career/family life set. Same with marriages. Millennials are getting married later in life.

I should note Midwestern bias here, as the coasts seem to have a longer history of this practice. In the midwest, it seemed like you basically got married right out of college, not later in life.
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Women get knocked up when they finish their education. In the Northeast that's 30. In the Midwest, 26. In the South it's 13.
 
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Kepler said:
Women get knocked up when they finish their education. In the Northeast that's 30. In the Midwest, 26. In the South it's 13 by their cousin.
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FTFY. :D

It does seem the south does things at a younger age. Guessing it goes back a couple generations, due to farming/etc culture, similar to the midwest.
 
The Rube said:
Tell that to my ex-fiancee. She had our son at 40, then had another child at 42.
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The point is that a lot of gen x women are already hitting menopause while millennials are getting older than the old farts think.

Many people who use millennials as a derogatory term think they're still teenagers. Most of them/us are not. The vast majority of teenagers are generation z.
 
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The Rube said:
FTFY. :D

It does seem the south does things at a younger age. Guessing it goes back a couple generations, due to farming/etc culture, similar to the midwest.
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It was only in the 19th century with the rise of a middle class and perma-childhood that people waited until they were 20 or even 18. Through 99.99999% of human history it was 16-year old boys f-cking 13-year old girls. There wasn't even a concept of "teens" before then. You were a child until you became sexually able and then you were an adult.

The backwoods hayseeds are the normals. It's we who are the freaks.
 
unofan said:
The point is that a lot of gen x women are already hitting menopause while millennials are getting older than the old farts think.

Many people who use millennials as a derogatory term think they're still teenagers. Most of them/us are not. The vast majority of teenagers are generation z.
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The Mils are pretty much all done with undergrad work. We're on to Gen Z as the lazy, spoiled teens now.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I guess I partly disagree with that as well. Our school had so many pregnancies, they started up a daycare for the kids inside the school so the moms and dads could get their diploma.

Purely anecdotal. But I get your point and I think you’re probably right in general. It’s also probably better we’re waiting longer.
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Yah.... Work into your 70s to pay the kiddies tuition :p
 
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Twitch Boy said:
My mom has openly started referring to my ball python as her "grandsnake." I'm not 100 percent sure how to take that.
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My mom refers to my pup as her granddog. Spoils her whenever she sees her too.

MissThundercat said:
I am also 37 years old, so I'm not sure where I fit in. I just wake up, drink the coffee, and go to work.
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I go with Xenial. I'm 36. My husband likes to say he's gen X 'cause he was born in 1980. I was born in '82. I don't consider he and I different generations.

Going back to the gender reveal, I think it's stupid. Husband and I are having a human. Who cares what it's genitals are? Please don't push your societal views onto my child based on an X or Y chromosome. We did find out the gender, and I have told people, but no party and I hope people don't expect my daughter to wear a bunch of pink stuff and only play with dolls and not trucks.

And yeah, this "millenial" didn't get married until 34, and will be 37 (hubs will be 38) when our first child is born.
 
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wolverineTrumpet said:
My mom refers to my pup as her granddog. Spoils her whenever she sees her too.

I go with Xenial. I'm 36. My husband likes to say he's gen X 'cause he was born in 1980. I was born in '82. I don't consider he and I different generations.

Going back to the gender reveal, I think it's stupid. Husband and I are having a human. Who cares what it's genitals are? Please don't push your societal views onto my child based on an X or Y chromosome. We did find out the gender, and I have told people, but no party and I hope people don't expect my daughter to wear a bunch of pink stuff and only play with dolls and not trucks.

And yeah, this "millenial" didn't get married until 34, and will be 37 (hubs will be 38) when our first child is born.
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I despise the word Xennial for some bizarre reason. I prefer Oregon Trail Generation. 😁
 
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We had an Apple II of some sort at home. The old green screen.

O’Dell Lake
Oregon trail
Number munchers
Dung beetles
Some weird poker game
Some d&d type rpg game
A bunch of others I can’t remember.
 
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There is no question people are waiting much longer today to have kids. I'm sure there are a variety of reasons for that including delays in getting married, financial reasons, etc... Personally I think it's an unfortunate development.

I think about my parents situation. They were 23 and 24 respectively when I was born. That seems pretty typical for their generation, as a lot of my friends had parents who were of a similar age.

My parents first became grandparents at ages 48 and 49. They are now in their 80's, still in really good shape mentally and pretty solid physical condition, and they have three great grandchildren.

If you asked them I think they would tell you that some of their greatest joys in life have been the ability at what is still a young age to enjoy the grandkids, whether it's taking them fishing, going on vacation with them, watching them through high school and college activities, etc... You get all of the joy of children without the financial or other responsibility of being a parent.

If you wait to have a kid when you're 38, and your kid does the same, you're 76 when that grandbaby arrives, assuming you're still alive. Pretty unlikely you ever see that kid play high school hockey or graduate from college, or ever get married.
 
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SJHovey said:
There is no question people are waiting much longer today to have kids. I'm sure there are a variety of reasons for that including delays in getting married, financial reasons, etc... Personally I think it's an unfortunate development.
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Personally I think you're not a woman. Having a kid young overdetermines a woman's entire life unless she's rich or brilliant. Dr. Mrs. happened to be the latter. She was lucky. 99 of 100 women in her place would not have been.

Many women, and all the ones with a modicum of intellect, want to be something other than your baby factory. Get over it.
 
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SJHovey said:
There is no question people are waiting much longer today to have kids. I'm sure there are a variety of reasons for that including delays in getting married, financial reasons, etc... Personally I think it's an unfortunate development.

I think about my parents situation. They were 23 and 24 respectively when I was born. That seems pretty typical for their generation, as a lot of my friends had parents who were of a similar age.

My parents first became grandparents at ages 48 and 49. They are now in their 80's, still in really good shape mentally and pretty solid physical condition, and they have three great grandchildren.

If you asked them I think they would tell you that some of their greatest joys in life have been the ability at what is still a young age to enjoy the grandkids, whether it's taking them fishing, going on vacation with them, watching them through high school and college activities, etc... You get all of the joy of children without the financial or other responsibility of being a parent.

If you wait to have a kid when you're 38, and your kid does the same, you're 76 when that grandbaby arrives, assuming you're still alive. Pretty unlikely you ever see that kid play high school hockey or graduate from college, or ever get married.
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I'm 41 and just now starting the process of trying to spawn another generation to suffer my genetic flaws; my wife is 34. It's Mr. Toad's Wild Ride!
 
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Kepler said:
That can't be right, even ironically. I played Oregon Trail.
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The younger kids were born when Oregon Trail was commonplace on school PCs, not the rare special prize for the lucky kids.
 
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