Well, as Marc has pointed out, just because we are getting married later and having children later doesn't mean we aren't having sex at a younger age; but I think when girls were routinely having first babies in their late teens, they must have been more routinely sexually active by then ;-)
So I don't think that't the stat we need unless we can get some that show that women were routinely having children around age 15-16 in earlier times. Annette Quoting Dennis Goff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Annette, > In support of your point, the age of first marriage has been drifting up over > the last 50 years. I think that I could track those statistics if you are > interested. > Dennis > > Dennis M. Goff > Professor of Psychology > Randolph-Macon Woman's College > 2500 Rivermont Ave > Lynchburg VA, 24503 > > Annette Wrote: > > I have this impression that when infant mortality was higher and life > expectancy was shorter people were having children (thus they were sexually > active) at a MUCH younger so that they could produce as many offspring as > possible that might survive to their reproductive age. In fact, it seems that > > over the last 20-40 years the average age of childbirth has risen, although I > > don't have a statistic to back that up and do not feel motivated enough to > give > up grading papers and writing a manuscript to do so; but someone correct me > if > I'm wrong here. > > Annette > > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. > Department of Psychology > University of San Diego > 5998 Alcala Park > San Diego, CA 92110 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Department of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
