Starting a family is an incredibly exciting time in one's life, and once you hit a certain age, it can feel like the marriage/pregnancy bug is contagious. So whether you were the first to do it or not, tell me, have most of your friends started families already?
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I'm basically the last of my original bunch to do the family thing - I'm also the youngest by a few years. I've made new friends lately who aren't on the fast track to cohabitation etc - several of them younger than me. It all balances out.
1Not yet...the pressure right now is getting engaged/married. (We're all around 24-27 in my group.)
2that's the cutest picture in the world
i have some friends who have (older friends met through work not school and one random friend who just happened to get married and pop out a kid pretty early) but for the most part, no
3Most of my friends have already started having kids, in fact my best friend from high school has six.
4Love the pic. My closest girlfriends are either in serious relationships or single, but not married w/ kids. The rest of my friends are split pretty evenly.
5Depends? Almost everyone I graduated with from high school got pregnant? Does that count?
6All of my friends are married (I'm 25). Almost all of them have kids or are pregnant.
7everybody's married. not too many with kids though. we always joke that by the time i get married, i'll have plenty of their daughters to choose to be flower girls.
8My best friend is engaged and the majority of people in my age bracket (21-25) are getting married, already married or about to start having kids. The pressure is definitely on, but I am in no rush to get to the altar.
9Love the picture! Most of my friends from high school are married and some have children. I'm starting to think about settling down myself now that I am almost 30. The people that I hangout with now are single and none of them have kids. I'm an eternal teenager, ugh.
10I'm about 21, and many of my friends married and started families right out of high school... my close friends, though, are still in college and are enjoying their freedom and youth... I'm "planning" on waiting until I am ready emotionally and financially to start a family/get married. I feel no pressure because I'm very independent, and generally a non conformist lol.
11It's pretty even...
12Most of my close friends are which is slightly terrifying for me... considering I just turned 21 and they are just turning 20. I mean sure a lot of them are getting married due to unexpected pregnancies, and they have plenty of inherited money to have a lovely life but come on now! 19, 20, & 21 year olds being the ideal family? no way. I think I'll wait a little while longer till I personally am ready.
13wow, I live in SF and most people (at least my friends from work, hs and college) don't start having kids until at least 30, even 40. Some got married around 27-29, but most get married and have kids after 30. I also don't have friends who are stay at home moms either, everyone works; career and financial stability are a pre-req before even thinking about marriage and children.
14Nope. Most of my friends are around my age, maybe a few yrs older but none of my close friends are there yet or even married!
15Nope. I'm 21, I know a few in serious relationships but most of us are single.
16Nope....i only know of a hand few that are married now
17Nope. I'm in my early twenties, as are most of my friends and none of us are even in relationships. I'd say about half of the girls from my high school are already parents though, which is strange. Everytime I go home to see the rents, I run into someone I know, and here they have a few babies strapped to them.
18Nope, thank god. That might be kinda awkward, since I really dislike little kids. A couple are married though.
19GScott, I was thinking the same thing! Most of my old friends got pregnant in HS and now that I'm 25 (and most of their kids are 10!) they are wondering why I haven't had any.
All the people I hang out with now are doing the married thing, but not the baby phase just yet.
20I'm only 20, and most of my friends are around the same age. I'm ahead of most of them (I'm one of the few in a long-term relationship), but my best friend is actually getting married in only 2 weeks! That scares me a little ... she isn't even old enough to drink, let alone to get married! Eeep.
21I'm one of the last to have kids. I can't wait!
22LoLz Smacks..it's true, I look at all their facebooks (since they all want to be my friend now ~_^) And everyone has a kid! I mean I love kids! They're cute and all and not as obnoxious as adults can be really, not yet at least, but I can wait at least another 10 or 15 years, I won't break down and cry if I never have one either. (I'm only 23 -_-). Better to have a kid when you can afford you know? I don't think I can look at my kid and explain to them why they have to skip lunch because there's no money.
23No, not yet. I have a few older friends (27-30) and they are already married and either have children or are pregnant. I think it will be a few more years before friends my age are starting a family of their own. As for me, it will definitely be a few years before I'm ready to settle down.. maybe many more years than just 'a few'.
24No, not the people I'm friends with now -- but a lot of people I knew in highschool have decided to get an F in life and do the child-out-of-wedlock-with-a-deadbeat-dad thing... well, 2 of my friends are exempt, they got degrees and married and now have babies.
We're all in our early 20's though. No one should be married with kids right now!
25Yes. Practically all of our family members, and most of our friends are married with children.
We're married and child-free by choice. You can't imagine the pressure we go through. Our decision to be child-free has a bit of a stigma attached it. We're receive a lot flak for it. Oh well.
26none of my friends have started families. most of us are only 19 years old
27It's about even for me...my sister and a few of my friends have kids and/or are pregnant, but I have friends that are older than me that aren't even married yet and are still doing the dating thing.
Like GlowingMoon, my husband and I are child-free by choice and, yes, there is a LOT of pressure put on us to reproduce. People figure it's the next logical step or something...after you get married, you're automatically supposed to have kids. I have kids; they just have fur and walk on four legs, lol!
28It's about 25/75 with/without, and 50/50 married/unmarried - I'm 30. I had friends in college who married right away and also had kids, but we lost touch because of our different lifestyles - it happens. Of course I'm still in my Ph.D. program so there are more unmarried/ without children people there than in the outside world, I imagine.
292 of my friends have, but most of my hubbys have (hes older then i am) so it throws him off all the time.
30yeap. and they are only 21-22. f*ckers. and i'm supposed to be the weird one with no family yet.
31I'm 28 - the baby bug just hit my group of married friends, and the first three pregnancies are currently underway!
32my friends my age are single. our married friends are much older (than me) and have children. we dont have any couple friends that are child-less and young like us. its a little annoying. :S
33My married friends are starting to try to start having babies. Only one has been successful so far.
Is it just me or is the kid in that pic too old for a pacifier?
34i'm 22... most of my friends and peers are either getting married OR having kids... it's very strange but no one i know seems to be doing both.. i'm just living with my boyfriend now and have no plans on getting married until i'm 25 or later.
35no. most of them are single and worriyng for others things like getting a job, travel... and we're 24-25..
36no.i'm the only one who has kids.i'm 27 and i have 4 kids and none of my friends have kids yet.they're getting married and thinking about starting families but it's weird that i have so many kids and my friends are still waiting to start families.
37People around me are getting pregnant, having babies, but none of my really close friends...
We are around 28 to 30, half of us are single, the other half in a relationship (but most of them not married).
38im almost 21. and i know people who are either my age or a couple ages younger than me who already have children. to me its soooo weird! i seriously cannot imagine myself having kids at this age.
39The ones I knew in HS who skipped college have kids but no husbands.
40Those of us who completed college have pets and boyfriends.
People I knew in school have kids but no husbands. People I went to university with are now starting to get engaged.
I'm quite lucky because I know I'm with the guy I'm going to get married to. We're taking it sensibly though and aren't rushing anything. We've discussed marriage and buying a house and know it's the way we're headed.
The people I knew in school who have kids are nearly all living off the state and I don't see how that could be a viable option for me! None of them went to University and they're going about it the total opposite way to how I would.
41I'm in college, and i only know one girl who has a kid already, and she just had a messy breakup with the father... oy. So no, no one is really there yet, but I'm glad, because I don't think any of us would be ready for it!
42My husband & I have been married 8 years, at least once a week someone outside the family has to ask us why we don't have kids.All of my girlfriends are mothers & all his male friends are, we all got married 2001
43Out of our close friends, there are two others who are married. Of those two, one has kids. Nobody else is anywhere close to marriage or kids. Of our other friends, about half are married, half are not. Of the married couples, a few have kids.
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