[Lizzie]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAlive

Age isn't as much of an issue

It’s a huge issue! Having a child in your teen years not only brings on medical complications for the mother but the child as well. Medical complications that would be severely reduced if the mother had the child in her twenties. Not to mention going the other way, having a child in your late forties can bring on medical complications as well. Just because you can have a child, does not mean the baby or the mother is going to be healthy during the pregnancy. The safest time to start having children is early twenties.
And while you are right, financial obligations do play a big role, so does the health of mother and baby. And when you have a teen pregnancy it brings on risks that would normally not be there during a pregnancy in a woman’s twenties and thirties.