Posted on 05/15/2011 7:27:30 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
Um...not true at all. Even at three years apart:
Child 1 - 27
Child 2 - 30
Child 3 - 33
Child 4 - 36
Child 5 - 39
If you want them you can do it. And closer in age is easier still.
3 is normal. 5 is as large as I’ve seen.
Nonetheless, where there’s a will there’s a way. A 30 year old male would probably marry a somewhat younger female, so let’s say she gives birth every 2.75 years. That’s about 40 on her 5th child, so that’s really not that hard.
We have a couple (Catholic) up the road with 13 kids. She’s actually very young for 13 kids, and (apparently) very fertile.
Her oldest is only about 25....my wife taught him in her math class. Where there’s a will.......
The 9.9 is a blonde.
I dated the President of the NOW chapter of her University, after a few months with me she had resigned and dropped out of NOW.
The diff between a 9.7 and a 9.9:
she only tells blonde jokes.
I dated a Catholic girl back in High School with 13 kids in their family. She and a sister were born in the same year. Then a brother born the following year, and two more brothers born in the same year following that IIRC. Real neat family, and an interesting study in demographics with all of the issues and problems that a sample of 13 people might give.
This isn’t surprising. The humanistic culture of the government schools is so powerful that it overwhelms even the relatively strong Mormon culture. Imagine what it is doing to the average “happy-clappy” Evangelical teen and young adult.
Come on. Getting married at 24 is a bad thing? I don’t think so for one minute. I was 28 and definitely glad I didn’t get married at 20. People should not get married before finishing college and getting a job for sure. How awful to advocate getting married at 20.....I guess we do need our welfare folks and McDonald’s workers.......it is insane to marry at 20.....sorry but it is.
Oh I know it can be done, but the older she is when she starts, the less likely the success.
I’ve heard that a 27 year old woman has only half the chance of getting pregnant than if she had been 19.
If you wish to produce data to refute my statement, the floor is yours.
I had my first at 26. We’re expecting our 6th in October. I haven’t hit my 40’s yet. Still time for a couple more. It can be done. Oh, no twins, either. :0)
Duh?
Guys who think like that are not marriage material. It also takes effort to be a husband and father. It takes effort to just plain grow up.
My niece was 19 and her husband had just turned 21. He is a carpenter and she is going to a local college to become a teacher. They own their own home and just had their first baby a few weeks ago. Virgins when they got married so earlier was better for them. They’re doing great! I think your broad brush is a bit ridiculous.
so they began....she had a baby every year for several years and whalaa...she had her seventh...
but they didn't stop at that...they now have 11...
a woman is fully capable of producing babies up into her 40's....she just needs a willing partner....
Lol.
You’ve been blessed.
My niece was 19 and her husband had just turned 21. He is a carpenter and she is going to a local college to become a teacher. They own their own home and just had their first baby a few weeks ago. Virgins when they got married so earlier was better for them. They’re doing great! I think your broad brush is a bit ridiculous.
Just as using your ONE experience is ridiculous. We will see how they do in ten years. By the way, they don’t own their own home. Maybe in 30 years they will but definitely not yet.
Okay, his twin brother married the year before with similar results. My parents, my brother and his wife, my nieces in-laws, my in-laws, my husband and I all got married before the age of 24. This is just immediate family here. Should I go on? I have lots of friends.
You’re right. They don’t own the home outright yet. However, he bought it on a 15 year loan three years ago. He didn’t see the point of renting and bought a small 3 bedroom home after he got his first job out of high school. So they’ll own it before too long. There are stories like this all over the place. Sorry you’re not seeing it. It’s pretty amazing! Good, strong conservative kids.
I couldn’t even afford to move out of my mother’s house at 20...
I know people who married very young and did fine.
I, OTOH, could barely afford gas and car insurance at age 20...so thankfully I wasn’t married!
My husband couldn’t afford it either. He was waiting tables while getting a higher education. I taught and worked at a children’s bookstore to help us pay bills. We both delivered newspapers on the weekend. I was able to quit working when he got his first “real” job and we’ve always been one income. We made it work.
I know that it’s not for everyone. Not everyone finds the right person early in life. I just didn’t like the broad brush of everyone that marries before age 24 must be on welfare that was stated up thread a bit. Seemed kind of silly from my point of reference.
Good night, all! My kids are up with the sun and it’s past my bedtime. :o)
Without a spouse, one would languish in a lower heaven and it's not acceptable (according to Mormon standards,) therefore marriage is a "must" not an "option."
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