I have met some girls who at their young age of 14 an lower who have had better parenting skills than my own parents...

Plus... any ANY parent who does onnnneeee, twwooo ect. should not breed... =.= I'm sorry if any of you do it... but it's like saying "You have until I get to 5 to screw around"

Plus some parents like to raise all 3 possible personality types and their combinations the same way... which... for all you psyche students... you should know easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up... about as different as the types of music in the world...

Sora thinks age does have to do with good parenting........
Sora believes that when your older, people have more of a mother and father feeling than when your in your teens and you actually have support for yourself that you can make for your child........
Sora hopes to have kids in maybe mid-early 20's.............when Sora has a steady career and can stand on his own 2 feet

I think that one of the most important things that a parent needs is understanding. You can't raise your kids the same way you were raised if you were born say, 35 years ago. The times do change, and I think that always sticking to old-school methods of raising your kids causes them to resent you since they don't understand where you're coming from.

But obviously understanding doesn't matter if the parents are like 19, and always screwing around, ignoring the child.

I'm only 17... so no kids for me. XD I also do not want any. Sounds greedy but I want to enjoy my life without a money/fun sucker.

I think age does make you a good parent or not. You need to be ready to have a child... and at 16 you're not ready. I think being 24 and having a child is a good age. If a girl has a baby at age 16... it's not going to be pretty. They need financial aid etc. But it's the same for a woman who is 24 but doesn't want one. If that woman has a child she might put up with the kid.. but she might not like the fact that she now has more than herself to take care of.

My boss' daughter had a child and she is 23. She is not the type of woman who wanted one at that age. She wanted to wait a few years but she's kind of a slut (sounds mean, but even she admitted it). Her ex-boyfriend/father of her kid is a lazy, poor jerk.. so she was in no condition to have a child. She always comes to my work with her son to eat and make her parents take care of him. My boss' wife is tired of it... and I can understand why. So I don't really think she's a good parent because she depends on my boss so much.

Basically, both age and the want to have a child is what makes you a good/bad parent (in my opinion).

I think nobody under the age of 21 or 22 should be a parent. I only feel that way because I am currently 20 and there is no way in hell I could imagine myself being a parent at this age. I've only been out of high school for two years. Most people my age don't have enough experience in the real world to be a responsible parent. There is so much of life to explore, so why waste our youthful years being parents when we could be exploring the world or living life to the fullest?

I am not sure about age and parenting. I know when I was 16 and having twins, I wasn't that great of a mom but I did try alot. At 19 I was a good mom, and when I had my last child at 20, I sucked at first. I got so used to kids waking me up in the middle of the night for food, that I honestly forgot my daughter for 24hrs because she sucked her thumb for an entire day and my husband and I thought she would wake up and tell us she was hungry and out of the blue, we realized that she never ate yet. It was a accident but something we learned never to do again. I think it mostly depends on what kind of person you are and what you are going through at the time of having a child. With each of my kids, I was a different person when I had them from the things I was put through by family, so that to me is the reason why I was a different mother to each of my 4 children.

I think on some circumstances it does and others it doesn't. Under 16 year olds, I don't think they'd make good parents. They'd resent their child a bit for not being to live their youth, plus they're just too young. I don't think they'd have that maturity level to handle a baby. But my sister is 18 and has a 5 month old baby. She is one of the best parents ever to that little baby, and I'm not just saying that because she is my sister. My sister is crazy and odd, like me, but even though she still acts like a kid, she is a wonderful mother. I'm uber proud of her for that ^.^ I've seen other 16-20 year old parents that, based off their age, at first you'd be like 'They're a parent?' but then you see them with their baby and it's like 'Whoa'. My mom had my oldest sister at 17, and she's a great mother to all 4 of us.

It only has to do with parenting because aging does help gain maturity (in the form of time), but not everyone matures in the same way. Age also has to do with the physical abilities of the parent (you don't want a parent in their 80's when you're 5, they wont be able to keep up with you). So, in a way it does, and in others it doesn't. Enjoy your little cupcake :heart:

I think in extreme cases, if you're too old or too young you can actually be physically unfit for having children. But I know that's not what you mean. ^^
Maturity is one thing, but experience and wisdom usually come with age.
I just read a book - the bad mother's handbook - which is exactly about this.

Maturity outweighs age to me when it comes to parenting.

But, I don't think anyone should have children unless they are financially stable.