Parenting Age Quotes

I always wanted children late; I had my first daughter at 39 and the second at 45.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.

Let us develop an agenda for children that says we can do something about teen pregnancy. Let us make sure that parents are old enough, wise enough, and financially able to take care of their children.

Most of my best friends had children in their early 40s.

We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.

This world would be a better place if people just realized that there's no written-in-stone set time to do anything. You could meet the love of your life at 18 or 48. You could become an amazing mom and be in the right head for that incredible journey at 24 or 42.

I think it's perfectly fine and interesting to have someone get married at a young age and have kids at a young age.

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

I think I'm going to pull a Charlie Chaplin and have kids when I'm 60.

I'm still friends with the girls I grew up with, and they're all on their second child. They're all like, 'Don't be in your 40s by the time you have kids,' and I'm like, 'Why not? There's nothing wrong with that.'

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

It's interesting how Rod Stewart can father a child at 65, and a straight, single footballer named Cristiano Ronaldo can arrange to have a surrogate have a baby, and neither of them receives any criticism.

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.

I didn't think about having kids until like I was 48, 49 years old.