How old were your parents when their first grandchild was born?

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1. Its yet to happen. Its very unlikely I or my other sibling will have kids.

2. I don’t have kids

3. I think my family is a little more spread apart than what I think would be the average.

   My grandma was born in 1912. My dad was born in 1942. I was born in 1984 and my dad’s first grandkid was born in 2002.

4. my dad was dead, my mom was 70

5. 52 and Dead.

6. 60 and 61

   My in-laws were 53 and 63 if I recall correctly.

   We had the first on both sides.

7. 56 and 51. We were 60 and 57. Every generation has kids later than their parents did.

8. 63 and 55 years old.

9. 60 and would have been 62.

10. 57/55

11. My mom was 44 or 45. My oldest niece is 13 I think. My sister was in her 20s when she got married and had her first. My mom is 57 now.

12. 54

13. 55 and 54. I was 30.

14. My line will likely die with me. Might adopt, dunno how to count that one

15. 66 + 67. In-laws were 68 + 70 I believe

16. 52.

17. Mother was in her 60s and father had already passed away.

18. My parents had 6 kids with 5 of them being legal adults and none of us have a child yet. My parent are in their 50s so I’m going to assume maybe 60s is when they would be grandparents. Wow, in didn’t notice how old we all are.

19. I can’t remember what year my niece was born, but I think Mom was about 60 at the time. Our father was long dead.

20. My parents were in their early 60s when my niece was born.

21. I don’t have kids. Probably won’t. My brother might but not for awhile

22. I don’t have kids that I know of. I know Grandpa was 65 when I was born. Old goat is 88 now and still alive. Still yells at me to find a nice Jewish girl.

23. This year my mother turned 59 this year and my brother had the first child out of me and my siblings.

    Funnily enough we now have my mom, me, and my baby niece who all share the same birthday.

24. My grandparents were somewhere in their mid 40s when their first grandchild was born (my oldest cousin.) They were in their early 50s when I was born.

    I don’t have kids and probably won’t any time soon, so I figured this was the next best answer.

25. My dad is dead (was 52 at the time), my step dad is 60, my mom is 55. First grandchild coming in January.

26. My mom was 44 when my sister had her first kid. Our dad was dead.

27. 54 and 55.

28. My son is the first grandchild, my mom was 35. When he was born, I was 19

    And my grandmother my son’s great grandmother was 51

29. Both were 41. Weird to think about since I’m 43 not married and no kids. Those grandkids are all older than my parents and siblings were they had kids. None of the grandkids have kids.

30. My dad was 57 and my mom was 56 when my first kid was born.

    For comparison, my grandparents were 50, 51, 53, and 57 when I was born.

31. My younger brother got his girlfriend pregnant when they were 19, and their daughter was born when my parents were 50.

    My wife and I didn’t have our first until I was 34, and my parents were 60.

32. My parents were around 50 when they got their first “grandchild”.

    By “grandchild” I mean grandkitten. My mother refers to my two cats that way because I told her “this is as close to a grandchild as you are getting for many years.”

    My mom keeps bugging me about kids rn because this is the age she had them so her age is when her mom became a grandma.

33. When my daughter was born, my dad was 63, and my mom was 57.

34. NaN and NaN because neither I nor my sister has any kids yet.

35. My dad was 64, mom 62

36. 55 and 54

37. 64 and 65

38. My oldest brother was born was my mom was 18, and he had a kid when he was 19. So my mom was 37 when she was a gramma, and my dad was 43.

39. Naturally this site downvotes this person to hell for asking a valid question, because how *dare* they imply that people should have kids, despite them just trying to figure out how old the average grandparent is when they actually become a grandparent

40. Maternal grandparents were 43 and 44.

    Paternal grandparents were 55 and 57.