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>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
by 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?