Bucking Trends

Carla might be already fretting that at 41 she is about to become a step-grandmother, even younger than Sarah Palin when she became a grandmother. According to this site, the average age of French mothers at their first childbirth was already 29.2 in 1997 and projected to increase for the foreseeable future. The mother in this case is 23. Not that anything is necessarily wrong with having a kid while many of your French peers are still in school, but those six years could've given Carla a bit more time to prepare for this with her psychiatrist. Besides, it makes Carla's hope for a child a bit awkward now the niece or nephew is older than any aunt or uncle.