Marriage during college?

dmd77
Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:54:03 +0000

Mombot: that’s precisely the question I was pondering. A child at 25 means college is done by 48 or so, leaving many years available to save for retirement… a child at 40 and you’re crowding up against those years. My father was 48 when I born, and retired my freshman year; I know that was difficult.

But of course the catch to early children is the risk that the marriage will fail, leaving the children to be raised by one parent or the other. However, the single moms I know all waited to have their children… which doesn’t seem to have made that much difference.

Me? I didn’t even WANT children until I was in my late twenties. At the time, 30 was late for a first child; now it’s not unusual at all.