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In Silicon Valley, nobody has kids until their late 30s, if ever. Edit: the post I replied to originally said something to the effect that finding engineers wi
by rdouble 14y ago
In Silicon Valley, nobody has kids until their late 30s, if ever.
Edit: the post I replied to originally said something to the effect that finding engineers without kids by age 30 would be statistically difficult. Which is false in Silicon Valley. That said, it's also not atypical in Silicon Valley to remain single well into your 30s.
- rayiner 14y agoAre we talking about entrepreneurs or engineers?
- rdouble 14y agoDoes it matter? The social dynamics are similar.
- rayiner 14y agoWe're talking about hiring employees, not finding co-founders. The question is what the pool of engineers looks like, not the pool of entrepreneurs. It's quite reasonable to believe that the latter will postpone having children much longer than the former.
- rdouble 14y agoWell, I wish I hadn't replied since you edited your comment to say something quite different to what I was responding to. That said, if I was wagering money on the age of when any tech employee in Silicon Valley gets married and starts having kids, I would pick 33.
- jonknee 14y agoGet out of the bubble sometime, there's a whole world out there.
- rdouble 14y agoWhat does the rest of the world have to do with my comment?
- jonknee 14y agoYou have a very narrow view of things if you don't think people are having kids (yes, even in the valley).
- rdouble 14y agoClearly, as the world population approaches 7 billion, people are indeed having kids. My comment was Silicon Valley specific. Do you know something I don't? Are 20 something tech employees in Silicon Valley all of the sudden having lots of kids? Because that would be interesting news, worthy of a news article. I don't appreciate the insinuation that I live in a bubble or have a narrow view of things, simply because I made a comment about Silicon Valley demographics.
- bearmf 14y agoThis is just not true. If you look at immigrant software engineers, they are usually married by 30 and then start having kids.
- rdouble 14y agoI'd like to see your data. Silicon Valley aside, the trend for women with college degrees has been to postpone childbirth until around age 35. This isn't exactly news.
- rayiner 14y agoThe average age of college educated women at first birth is 30: http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/getting-married-later-is-great-for-college-educated-women/274040/ http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/getting-mar...
- rdouble 14y agoIf Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia are included in those statistics, the age is closer to 35.
- bearmf 14y agoI don't have data for Silicon Valley, only anecdotal evidence. If you look at Indians and Russians around 30, they are mostly married and having/preparing to have kids. It is a well-known fact that immigrant fertility is higher in US than native fertility. I don't know where 35 years at first child came from. This is way too high for an average, even among well-educated. There might be a trend but at that age you will have all kinds of problems even with modern advances in IVF.