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40 is early for the average empty-nest boundary. That comes later. Rather, the decline at 40 marks marked independence of young children transitioning into pre-
by caeril 6y ago
40 is early for the average empty-nest boundary. That comes later. Rather, the decline at 40 marks marked independence of young children transitioning into pre-adolescence and then adolescence. You see your children much less 1. when they enter school, 2. when they start forming their own extra-familial friendships, and 3. when they enter adolescence and believe their parents don't know anything.
- bluntfang 6y ago>40 is early for the average empty-nest boundary. maybe for your demographic (and the demographic for hackernews readers), but many American children are born to teenage and early 20s mothers.
- caeril 6y agoYou're right. There are undoubtedly many teenage mothers. But we need to look at medians: The median age for women of first age of birth in the United States is 27.6 years. The average "childbearing years" duration is 5.3 years. If we assume an age of 10 for average increase in independence, we get 27.6 + (5.3/2) + 10 == 40.25 years.
- realityking 6y agoI’d think that demographic overlaps significantly with families that have more than one child. Significant for this questions is, when do folks have their last kid?