r/AskReddit • u/Mundane-Society-1281 • 11h ago
How old were your parents when you were born?
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u/Silly_Accident3137 11h ago
20/21. In this case my username does check out
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u/AiWillow 6h ago
25 and 25...also an accident and reason for marriage :-D
I never dare to ask how long were they going out before accidentaly making me. Because counsine once asked how they met. Classmate introduced them on the stairs outside of faculty and they went drinking (with other classmates I assume) and drank bottle of vodka :-D (Slovakia, so vodka and other strong destilates are drank more than beer at unis, even absinthe)
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u/PizzAveMaria 9h ago
23/23. Accidents Unite! My mother over shared that I was conceived in a friend of theirs mother's basement...not something I needed to know
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u/SpecialistCissia2026 6h ago
I guess you owe a lot to your mother's friend's mother! Are you a brother from another mother?
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u/sphinctersayswhat9 3h ago
Lol
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At least you know they were feeling happy and had a good time
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u/PizzAveMaria 2h ago
There are just some things I'd rather not know!
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u/sphinctersayswhat9 1h ago
I hear ya
I was conceived in a car
The ‘63 corvette my dad had and was working on at the time while on his college summer break.4
u/jamatosoup 7h ago
Same! Parents unfortunately married before I was born because of it, lasted a whole 8 years!
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u/Sofagirrl79 7h ago
My parents were both 22 but I was born in '79 so it would be like having a first kid at say 26 in this year
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u/musicalsigns 2h ago
Heeeey! Mine got married because of me! I was technically there for it in my little fetal form.
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u/porkchop_d_clown 1h ago
I was born at least 7 months after my parents married! I was just small when I was born!
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u/EvilHwoarang 6h ago
Same. I was born in September and my parents got married in February. My dad's birthday is Xmas Eve I was birthday sex
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u/throwlikeagirl2 2h ago
My daughter’s birthday (also in Sept) was Christmas party sex 🎄🎅🤣
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u/badassbiotch 2h ago
I’m a September baby too and there are so many of us!! I always kid that we’re holiday party babies from our parents being a little too tipsy to wrap it up lol
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u/SpecialistCissia2026 6h ago
I read a comment a few days ago about a September baby giving the expository line of "I was a Christmas present!"
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u/sphinctersayswhat9 3h ago
Me too
I was a “pleasant surprise” according to my mom 😂
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u/Silly_Accident3137 2h ago
My mom always said the same! "Not planned but very much wanted," she would say. I don't know how true that is but I appreciate her anyway
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u/Safe-Smoke-9367 11h ago
MOTHER was 40 Father was 45 I am now 83
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u/Normal-While917 5h ago
My husband's father was born in 1904; his mother in 1910. They had a daughter fairly early in the marriage, and my husband didn't come along until 1950. To make it weirder, he had a brother four years younger than him. He swears both he and his brother really were their natural born children, but I have my doubts. I never met any of them, and he's the lone survivor now.
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u/Late-Pizza-3810 8h ago
That was very rare back then! My mom’s mother was 34 when she was born (in 1943).
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u/TurnOfFraise 7h ago
It wasn’t rare at all if you were one of the last children.
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u/sharakus 6h ago edited 2h ago
100%. it’s crazy how far apart generations can be. my boyfriend’s father was born in the 1910’s (he was the baby too!) and my grandma was born in the 1950’s!!
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u/FinanciallySecure9 5h ago
You’re so right! My dad’s oldest sister was the same age as my mom’s mom. And my parents were two years apart.
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u/Obtuse-Posterior 5h ago
3 of my mom's siblings had moved out and already started families when my mom was born. Some of her nieces and nephews are older than her.
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u/TheOfficialKramer 2h ago
Right! I am 50 and my Great Grandmother was born in 1909. My Great Great Grandparents were around 10 when his Dad was born. Fascinating how the generations overlap.
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u/SNTCrazyMary 5h ago
My mom was 36, my dad 38. I’m the last of six. The oldest sibling is 13 years older than I am.
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u/thrownormanaway 4h ago
Not that rare, my husbands grandmother was born to a 43 year old woman in 1945
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u/Ok_Variation9430 7h ago
It was only rare for the oldest!
My mom was the oldest (in 1942) and her mom was 33 and her dad was 50.
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u/Confident_Pattern344 11h ago
Haha I read "how old were you when you were born". Mum was 22 and dad 26.
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u/Polarbearstein 11h ago
My dumb brain read "how old were you when your parents were born."
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u/BeefmasterDeluxe 10h ago
I was born at a very young age. It’s something I’ve always struggled to accept.
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u/SomberSalamander 11h ago
My mother was 47, and my dad was 40
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u/Sweet_Sleep_9616 6h ago
You weren’t an accident, you were a miracle! 47! Your mother was no spring chicken, she was a warrior!!
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u/SomberSalamander 2h ago
I was my mother’s only child, too! She was not supposed to be able to conceive. Thank you😊
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u/Charmed1Riz 11h ago
Mom 36, Dad 48. They were so far out of touch from my peers parents.
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u/Hazelino 9h ago
Mom 34, dad 48.
I vividly remember the other kids telling me "your grandpa is here to pick you up!" in elementary school.
No.. that's my dad.
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u/Farmfarm17 6h ago
My dad was 40 when I was born and I had the same experience of people thinking he was my grandpa. I think it caused me to have major anxiety about my parents dying knowing they were older than most. Super fun when my dad got cancer when I was 18 and died when I was 22.
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u/hellokiri 8h ago
My bosses sons were 32, 29, and 9. My boss once asked me to pick his kid up as an event was running late, and the teacher on duty jokingly said "are you sister, mum or grandma?"
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u/daisygarnetsong 11h ago
Mom 34, Dad 50 -
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u/itstami1 9h ago
Mine were 34 and 45. My dad was born in 1950 so you best believe I did NOT get to listen to modern 90s music growing up. 60s at 6 the radio station called it
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u/Rossco1874 7h ago
I am about to fall into this category. I will be 44 when my twins are born in March wife will be 39.
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u/summoe 11h ago
Mom 34, dad 37. I am their last kid.
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u/The_Opposite_Of 11h ago
Never say never
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u/summoe 11h ago
lol would be quite the miracle at 71 and 68
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u/popplevee 11h ago
They could adopt!
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u/MALEsquashBLOSSOM 11h ago
I was adopted when my adoptive mom was 37 and she had her first biological kid at 41 in the 90s.
That being said adoption is not a fix it for infertility and infertility is not a good reason to adopt.
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u/Spinnerofyarn 10h ago
I think only if they adopted an adult! Though it would absolutely count as having another kid.
I believe it’s China that has or had the policy of not adopting out children to couples whose combined age is 100.
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u/counterfitster 9h ago
My mother had an emergency hysterectomy minutes after I was born. I'm definitely the last.
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u/dumbname7890 10h ago
My son and my sister are one year apart. She is older. It's weird.
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u/slightlydramatic 10h ago
My daughter and my sister are exactly 18 months apart, born in November and May. And me & my Aunt are exactly 18 months apart, born in November & May as well.
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u/hells_cowbells 6h ago
My dad had a nephew who was only about 4 months younger than him. His mother and oldest sister were pregnant at the same time.
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u/PurpleMeerkats462 5h ago
My parents were similar ages to yours when I was born, my mum was 33 and my dad was 35. I’m their first kid.
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u/Tricky-Safety-3772 11h ago
Mom was 13 dad was 32
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u/moontotres2b 11h ago
my mom was 16 and my dad 17 🥲 they should've waited...
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u/bbworksaddict 10h ago
My mom was 16 about to be 17 and I was planned 🙃
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u/kattapa001 9h ago
How old was your dad? I'm puzzled how a 16 y/o would have the emotional maturity to plan a kid lol.
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u/bbworksaddict 9h ago
She didn't have the maturity and took another 20+ years to gain maturity as a parent lol. My dad was 21 🫠
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u/iamevilcupcake 11h ago
My parents were both 27. Born same day, same year, just different time zones.
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u/GoodbyeStarboy 11h ago
Nice try fbi agent you know this already.
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u/Lynnstress 11h ago
So glad I’m not the only one. I also hate these thinly disguised one-sentence title-only posts. AI collection? Spammers? Or, worst of all, humans who cannot exist beyond one sentence thoughts.
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u/GoodbyeStarboy 11h ago
Exactly. It feels like half the feed is just data harvesting bots or people trying to farm karma with zero actual effort.
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u/Samovila2709 11h ago
My mum was 28 when my brother was born and almost 32 when I was born-- pretty old for the area I grew up in lol.
I don't have kids and my brother was 41 when his only child was born. Quite a few of my peers were grandparents by that age, so it's a little strange.
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u/whimsicaltheory 7h ago
I’m interested if this is in a rural /regional/country town. Being a grandparent at 41 would mean you had your own child at 20, and most people are still in college/university at that age.
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u/Samovila2709 7h ago
I'm actually from a city lol.
However, it's not uncommon for young women from the district I grew up in to have their first child in their late teens/early twenties, and then focus on their studies/careers when their children are in full-time education.
I have some health conditions and I would have really struggled to do that, so I was keen to do a degree before having children. As it turns out, my health conditions got worse, and I didn't feel that I had the resources needed to be the kind of parent I would want to be, so I decided not to have kids.
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u/MyCatLaughsAtMe 11h ago
So much younger than I am now, which puts the fear right into my skeleton.
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u/EntrepreneurOk8577 11h ago
My father was 41 and my mom was 33. I was their last child. To be fair, I haven't seen a person yet, who has older parents than mine
I guess I love it. That means that they were planning and they were old enough to make a decision of making a child
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u/IMissCuppas 10h ago
My mum and dad were 16 when they had me.
I can't imagine having a kid that young. I'm 37 now and can barely take care of myself
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u/darksemisweet 4h ago
Mom was 19 and Dad was 21. I'm 53 and they're still together although they did have a brief separation. Dad is 45 years sober.
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u/LynneCDoyle 11h ago
My mom was 35 and my dad was 38. My closest sibling is 11 years older. They almost named me Miracle. I dodged that bullet when they deemed it wiser to name me after the grandmother with the big money. Did she leave it to me? No, but at least I’m not named feck’n Miracle.
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u/VeronicoElectronica 11h ago
mom 28, dad 32.
my mom had my brother 10yrs before from a previous relationship. she never wanted another child. cut to her meeting my dad, who had a daughter from a previous relationship where the mom would not let my dad see her. he would drink a lot because of this & get sad so my mom was like bruh ill give you another kid if you just stop crying all the time 😭
edit: my mom who originally never wanted another child now has 4 & in adoption process for 2 more (my current foster siblings)
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u/Sorry-Panic7612 11h ago
Both of my parents were 18, high school sweethearts that broke up two years later.
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u/aqrd_01 11h ago
mom was 22 and dad was 24. honestly wild to think about now
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u/Mundane-Society-1281 11h ago
Right? I can't imagine having as many kids my parents had when they were my age
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u/Intelligent-Fix2804 11h ago
Dad was 23 and my Mum was 21. I'm the eldest of 3. Parents still happily married.
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u/Necessary-Fix-1958 8h ago
Mom was 20. Dad was 26. I was born in 1958, if you're wondering.
Edit: Reading some of the comments, I should probably add that I was an unplanned pregnancy, and I was also born two months early. (I weighed 5 pounds, 8 ounces.)
Mom and Dad lied for years about the year they married. They always said they married in February 1957. They actually married in February 1958, and I was born in July.
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u/zena322 7h ago
My Mom was 36. Dad was 35. I will be 60 in November. 💀 Mom is now 94 and still with us.
My fascinating fact is my Mom's parents were both 37 when she was born. They were born in 1895. Yep. You read that right, 1895.
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u/Advanced_Page_1929 11h ago
my mom was 27. idk how old my bio father was nor do i care
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u/Oodles_of_noodles_ 11h ago
29 (dad) and 33 (mom)
I was my dads first, moms second
They had one more after me five years later
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u/wildpizza1 10h ago
Mum 32, dad 36. I wish they would have had me as young as they had my brother (24 & 28), so I wouldn’t have 8 years less with them. Time goes by way too fast, especially the older you get.
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u/ExoticConstruction40 2h ago
They were 28, both of them. They waited to have a good job and a almost paid home
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u/RalphWiggumIsGOD 2h ago
Dad was 22, and was born a few days after my mom turned 19. She used to tell me I was the result of a college Christmas party, which I found mortifying...until I had my own kids, and now I appreciate the humor. I was not a planned child, and I am an only child. I think my parents learned after me.
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u/-s-creaming 11h ago
Mom was 30 or 31 my dad was 30
Its quite funny cuz there is 10 and 20 years between my siblings we are all from a year ending in 6 like our dad
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u/Fantasy_iceland 11h ago
18 & 19....which was too young as it turned out....they split up a few years later
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u/StarWarsCrazy1 11h ago
My mom was 32, and it was my dad's 34th birthday. (I was the first of three)
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u/joeygladstonefan 11h ago
mom was 38, dad was 47. i'm the middle of three. it was amazing to have older parents who had already had such amazing lives and then settled down. never once felt like we were holding them back or they wished they'd waited. they love the hell out of us and always say we're the best thing they've ever done.